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How COVID-19 is impacting hospitals' IT purchasing decisions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

On-site implementations have been slowed, said John Moore, founder and managing partner of Chilmark Research – affected to a great extent by the ability of IT personnel to have wide access to hospital facilities that are treating larger censuses of patients. There's still an amount of work being done in the cloud."

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4 reasons why the healthcare industry is vulnerable to cyber attacks

Digital Leaders HealthTech

For me the healthcare industry is a prime target for medical information theft as it lags behind other leading industries in securing vital data. 4 reasons why the healthcare industry is vulnerable . In the already overstretched world of hospitals, it is no wonder that cyber security is not top of mind for most workers.

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Direct Recruiters, Inc. and INNOVA People Merge to Launch Healthcare and Tech Staffing Divisions

Healthcare IT Today

CEO Joel Slenning, drawing from over two decades of experience, alongside the INNOVA People team, will leverage their distinctive technology stack and artificial intelligence platform, which have cemented the firm’s reputation as a crucial staffing ally for the healthcare and technology industries. “We

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Digital Diabetes Management in the Hot Seat

Digital Health Wire

The report’s reliance on predictive models rather than actual cost studies overlooks real-world evidence, particularly concerning products like Dario, which has independent studies demonstrating reductions in both costs and hospitalizations.

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Where telemedicine is headed now that the PHE has ended

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

What does the end of the public health emergency mean for the future of the healthcare industry? With the official end of the pandemic, my hope for the industry is that policymakers take the opportunity to address systemic problems that the pandemic brought to the fore. That usually doesn’t work out very well.

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Hacker group Orangeworm attacks long-standing vulnerabilities in healthcare imaging devices

FierceHealthIT

A hacker group known as Orangeworm is launching targeted attacks against the healthcare industry focusing on well-known vulnerabilities within legacy devices to gain access to systems. For hospitals, it highlights a difficult vulnerability within the imaging suite and broader concerns about medical device cybersecurity.

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NTIA hands over $45B to state broadband offices

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Video made telehealth a star Community-owned broadband networks have the power to transform entrepreneurs into captains of industry, change the course of governments and make people LOL at kitty antics. Telehealth can harness and focus broadband and hospital IT investments into digital advancements for urban and rural communities.