Andrea Fox
Several factors combined to hit healthcare hardest again this year, but new research by the Ponemon Institute and IBM Security also found that using artificial intelligence in security reduced attacks' severity in terms of cost and recovery time.
Nursing and IT
Integrating analytics and care coordination recommendations into EHR workflows has helped reduce lengths of stay, says the health system's COO – lowering costs, boosting patient access and reducing burdens for nurses and other clinicians.
An exclusive look at what's billed as a first-of-its-kind, EHR-agnostic automated clinical notetaking tool. It uses artificial intelligence to help reduce behavioral healthcare providers' administrative burdens.
By aligning capabilities and working together to develop affordable and tailored technology, the nonprofit healthcare technology service organizations aim to improve the sustainability of community health centers nationwide.
By modernizing systems and improving leadership and culture to embrace reporting, healthcare organizations can better address the top 10 patient safety concerns for 2024, says Heidi Raines, founder and CEO of Performance Health Partners.
Artificial intelligence continues to permeate technologies that providers use. This week, it's helping to find relevant talent to improve data usage in care coordination and enhance signal-to-noise ratio in MRIs.
The Homeland Security agency points to 13 vulnerabilities with the networked medical imaging and archiving systems that should be patched now. One dark web research firm says the U.S. and Brazil have the most internet-exposed PACs.
Some industry leaders are concerned about compliance time frames. Others say unstructured data won't be tapped to its fullest potential under the proposed rule.
Since its botched Microsoft security update this past week, most healthcare organizations seem to be resuming normal operations. But one of the largest IT snafus ever shows that the industry must better prepare for third-party technology disruptions.
CrowdSrike says the BSOD outage for Microsoft Windows was caused by a botched security update. It has resulted in surgical cancellations, ambulance diversions and other patient care disruptions at doctors' offices, ERs and hospitals around the globe.