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Enhancing Healthcare Cybersecurity Through Legacy System Retirement and Data Archiving

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. According to an investigation by ProPublica and German radio and TV network Bayerischer Rundfunk, medical data of more than 5MM U.S.

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More Evidence That Healthcare Cybersecurity Could Stand To Be Tightened Up Quite A Bit

Healthcare IT Today

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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Driving Innovation in Healthcare: How an Ecosystem Approach to IoMT has the Potential to Transform Patient Care and Cost Management

Healthcare IT Today

Data cleanliness is critically important in getting provider buy-in to leverage IoMT data in their medical decision-making, and it is imperative that IT departments display that data accurately in the appropriate EMR workflows.

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Healthcare AI – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

The future of healthcare is in the midst of an AI and ambient assisted transformation where technology is an integral part of coordinating smart care teams to deliver more timely and efficient patient care with a human touch.

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Health IT: Buy or Sell – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 91

Healthcare IT Today

For the 91st episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we’re doing another edition of our popular Health IT: Buy or Sell. In this episode, we look at four grand statements about something in healthcare IT.

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Cyberattackers Hit Hospitals Hard During Pandemic

Healthcare IT Today

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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Hidden Dangers in Healthcare – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 30

Healthcare IT Today

For the 30th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re doing another edition of Buy or Sell. In this edition of Buy or Sell we’ll […] In another edition of "Buy or Sell", Colin and John talk about a number of hidden dangers in healthcare and whether they're "buying" or "selling" that it's really a hidden danger or not.