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How COVID-19 is impacting hospitals' IT purchasing decisions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" Clinical informaticists "are being overwhelmed" Health IT vendors face their own challenges in supplying personnel to support implementations, with some of them making corporate decisions to have their employees work from home, or facing state governments' stay-at-home orders.

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How a Sepsis Project Helped HCA Be Better Prepared for Hurricanes

Healthcare IT Today

Jim Jirjis, Chief Health Information Officer at HCA to discuss the value of data quality in healthcare and find out more about the link between their sepsis project and better emergency preparedness. With 185 hospitals, it takes effort for HCA to maintain good quality health data across their entire organization.

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Connected Medical Devices—the Next Target for Ransomware Attacks

Healthcare IT Today

These types of vulnerable clinical systems also add another pathway for launching a ransomware attack on a hospital. It is not hard to imagine the magnitude of impact if malicious actors obtain control over medical systems and remove them from operation at a hospital with hundreds of beds.

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A closer look at the tech needed for new care-at-home and aging-in-place models

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Healthcare IT News sat down with Shah to discuss health IT's role in aging in place. But if you look at a hospital, it's the place with the best resources for clinical care in our country, for example, the staff, providers, equipment and technology. They were an untapped resource with a critical and objective perspective.

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Weekender 2/1/19

HIStalk Weekender

One couple paid a hospital its indigent care rate in cash, then hit Beverly Hills for a shopping spree at Rolex and Louis Vuitton. A reader sent a link to something that has zero to do with health IT, but is cool (no pun intended). HIStalk Interviews Jason Krantz, CEO, Definitive Healthcare. In Case You Missed It. News 2/1/19.