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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

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These new ideas and technologies are only successful, however, if enough people collectively take notice and talk about it in order to make it trend. This then results in certain topics being neglected – regardless of their quality and how much you would personally like to see them trend. FHIR, HL7).

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More Hospitals Achieving Interoperability Goals

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New research from the ONC has found that a meaningful percentage of hospitals are engaged in data sharing, with a growing number making patient health information available from outside sources. Though the data goes back a couple of years, it’s still a worthwhile look at where data sharing trends are among hospitals.

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5 Ways to Close the Cloud Security Gaps in Healthcare

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Its survey of hospital IT and security leaders found that significantly more respondents said that ransomware attacks increased complications from medical procedures. This provides an overall broader view of patient data and makes it possible to gain insights on trends that can be used to improve service and care.

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Lessons From a Ransomware Attack: The Importance of Partnership & Collaboration

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Now imagine that business is a hospital. If this cyberattack trend continues, what chance do organizations have to protect themselves and the reams of personally identifiable information (PII) they handle? It serves 80,000 people and it’s the only one within 10,000 square miles. In 2021, those numbers rose to 847,376 and $6.9

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

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Mimi Winsberg, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Brightside Health We have been in an uncertain time for regulation around telemedicine, and there are a few key trends to watch. This will compel payers to take immediate steps to gain more visibility into their data to better inform that decision-making.

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Healthcare has never experienced anything like Amazon’s combination of logistics, voice AI expertise and data analytics. The impact could be huge.

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If you consider its leadership team (led by surgeon and best-selling writer Atul Gawande) and Amazon’s yearslong gesturing toward healthcare and previous comments by Berkshire Hathaway founder Warren Buffett, some clues come into focus. KPMG’s Shehata views Haven’s leadership hirings as proof that it’s taking data concerns seriously.

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Connected Medical Devices—the Next Target for Ransomware Attacks

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These types of vulnerable clinical systems also add another pathway for launching a ransomware attack on a hospital. It is not hard to imagine the magnitude of impact if malicious actors obtain control over medical systems and remove them from operation at a hospital with hundreds of beds.