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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 . Doctors and nurses rely on these machines to monitor patient health and to serve as a partner in diagnosis.

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

Healthcare IT Today

Ryan Witt, Vice President, Industry Solutions at Proofpoint, Inc. They handle data like protected health information (PHI), intellectual property (IP), clinical trial data and payment card data, giving attackers many options to cash in, and healthcare is a critical infrastructure industry that can be hardest hit by ransomware attacks.

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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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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

But in a time when our industry is facing high staff overtime and burnout, there’s simply no way that we can be aware of everything happening in health IT. One challenge is extensive nomenclature differences across physician practices, hospitals, and pharmacies. The following is what they had to share with us.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The COVID-19 pandemic has put the healthcare industry through the wringer. "Rather, our patients, physicians and nurses have grown accustomed to digital health over years of incremental and foundational work, and all came rushing to make this the new normal." Taking transformation to the next level.

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Clinical Messaging Apps: What is the right business model?

Lloyd Price

For example, an app might partner with a hospital to offer patients a way to message their doctors and nurses directly. HealthTech Thought Leadership from Nelson Advisors - Industry Insights & Analysis for Founders, Owners & Investors. Subscribe today! This can help to improve the efficiency of patient care.