Information Technology - August 2017
How the burning FHIR affects healthcare organizations
With the boon of digitization in healthcare, care delivery became faster and easier, but interoperability got lost somewhere in this revolution
8/31/2017
Hospitals urged to cooperate to beat hackers
Security frameworks and threat intelligence sharing already exist
8/31/2017
Survey shows few hospitals are keeping up with consumer expectations
Only 8 percent of healthcare organizations are applying successful practices to meet these new expectations
8/28/2017
IT and clinical engineering convergence. Why now? How?
Today’s medical devices and biomedical/clinical engineering (CE) departments are increasingly dependent upon a health system’s IT infrastructure and expertise.
8/25/2017
Hospital room of the future includes IoT
IoT can create drastic improvement in hospital care
8/18/2017
Multi-modal communications platform keeps affected users Informed during IT crises
How an academic medical center manages a campus-wide crises
8/17/2017
Insiders, hackers causing most recent healthcare breaches
The healthcare sector has reported 233 breach incidents this year so far
8/17/2017
Cybercriminals may be planning a new type of attack on healthcare
There is a possibility of direct manipulation of patient data
8/10/2017
Virtual assistants could change the way healthcare is delivered
Amazon's Alexa can give medical advice and look up and recite clinical information
8/8/2017
Interoperability is the heart of care coordination
As of 2015, 75% of hospitals have at least a basic EHR, a major increase from 9% less than a decade ago
8/7/2017
Healthcare facilities are using more robots, but drones aren't taking off yet
Drones investments may be five years away
8/3/2017
The future of health intelligent virtual assistant market
Speech recognition technology to gain prominence over 2017-2024
8/2/2017