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Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

Health data should be protected by a similar assessment requirement for health plans and providers to receive federal funds. Ryan Witt, Vice President, Industry Solutions at Proofpoint, Inc. The penalty will be disqualification from bidding on defense contracts without a certification.

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Digital Transformation: How AI Could Spell a New Era of ‘Smart Care’

Healthcare IT Today

This seeks to combine cognition with recognition — essentially AI that can reason and think beyond basic patterns in data, the same way any clinician would. Transforming healthcare does not just have to happen in the hospital — it’s about what happens long before a hospital visit is required.

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Revolutionizing Postoperative Care at Home with Remote Patient Monitoring

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

With RPM, patients can use wearable devices or mobile apps to track their vital signs and other health data, and send this information to their healthcare providers in real-time. Post-Operative Care After Discharge After being discharged from the hospital, it’s important to continue with your postoperative care at home.

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Tech and the future of care work – five research midpoint observations

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Each interviewee was asked for thoughts in the context of the categories suggested by ChatGPT and any other categories that will improve the work processes for those in the care-related industries – home care, home healthcare, senior living care (including nursing homes), and hospital discharge processes to any of those.

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HIStalk Interviews Ron Remy, CEO, Mobile Heartbeat

HIStalk Interviews

I was an early employee of Sun Microsystems, going all the way back to 1985, so I’ve been in the technology industry for a long time. It’s designed for acute care and affiliated ambulatory facilities of hospitals. To broadcast out to everybody, both inside and outside the hospital, what needed to get done.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies.