Healthcare IT Today

JULY 26, 2019

Not long ago, I shared the results of a survey concluding that healthcare organizations generally felt pretty confident about the state of their cybersecurity defenses, despite having had WannaCry wipe the floor with them just two years before. The survey, […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2019

For the 26th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, and we’re taking a look back at the last decade of Health IT. Hard to believe that it’s almost 2020, but as we enter the new decade join us as we look back.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. As artificial intelligence becomes more integrated in healthcare, its vast potential comes into sharper focus; its shortcomings are becoming more apparent as well.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

that are in the process of adopting or have implemented electronic health record (EHR) systems. The proof of this is in the 78% of office-based physicians and 96% of non-federal acute care hospitals in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. But what most healthcare professionals don’t realize is that AI can do so much more than respond to patient messages.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. To support these efforts, we expect healthcare IT leaders to adopt new approaches to network management, including AI-enhanced monitoring (AIOps) and observability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2020

Being a hospital CIO can be an unenviable – and sometimes nearly thankless – job even at the best of times. Things have arguably gotten even worse for health IT leaders as COVID-19 caseloads mount and the need to slap together solutions addressing the pandemic grows. Given this level of chaos, it’s predictable that cyberattackers […].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Hospital and healthcare services provider Universal Health Services has restored its network after being offline for more than a week in the wake of a massive cyberattack which forced it to shut down systems at locations across the US. The health system had disconnected the network to prevent the propagation of a malware attack.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2020

New research has concluded that healthcare CIOs see analyzing social determinants of health data as a top priority going forward, along with tackling data interoperability and cybersecurity. The focus group study, which was conducted by LexisNexis Risk Solutions, involved bringing together a group of CIOs who were members of CHIME.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Another day, another scheme to profit from the high prices commanded by healthcare data. This time, the industry is confronting a new wave of cybercrime in which intruders are selling access to patient portals.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

A new report by a security vendor says that it has seen a big increase in the volume of threats against healthcare organizations during the first three quarters of this year. The report, by Malwarebytes, says that it saw a 60% increase of threats at healthcare organizations when comparing all of 2018 with just the […].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. When decommissioning healthcare systems to archive legacy data, there are often significant tradeoffs.

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