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Tom Sullivan

Tom Sullivan is the Editor-in-Chief of Healthcare IT News. Sullivan writes the Innovation Pulse column and covers major HIT topics including government policy and emerging technologies. Follow Tom on Twitter @SullyHIT

Electronic Health Records
By Tom Sullivan | 10:15 am | May 22, 2017
More Disruption Please Labs head Santosh Mohan said that CEO Jonathan Bush will present big ideas for digital health startups to chase at an event next month in San Francisco.
Privacy & Security
By Tom Sullivan | 11:31 am | May 19, 2017
As I stood in a room of infosec and healthcare CISOs, the response to the ransomware was nothing short of fear.
Analytics
By Tom Sullivan | 11:11 am | May 19, 2017
Today’s IT infrastructures are not hearty enough to support the data needs of genomics and other emerging healthcare practices and capabilities,  HIMSS Analytics says.
Connected Health
By Tom Sullivan | 03:37 pm | May 18, 2017
But there is no killer app to solve the whole problem of unsecured legacy devices.
Analytics
By Tom Sullivan | 02:13 pm | May 16, 2017
But the looming shortage of data scientists will likely slow down the adoption, CMO says.
Analytics
By Tom Sullivan | 11:51 am | May 16, 2017
Training programs for cultivating leaders often focus too much on skills and not enough on process, says Bryan Bennett, executive director of the Healthcare Center for Excellence.
Analytics
By Tom Sullivan | 04:46 pm | May 15, 2017
As artificial intelligence, cognitive computing and machine learning systems become better than humans at medicine and cost less, it might even become unethical not to replace people.
Analytics
By Tom Sullivan | 03:54 pm | May 15, 2017
Hospitals must more effectively gather and analyze their existing data, speakers at the Big Data and Healthcare Analytics Forum said.
Privacy & Security
By Tom Sullivan | 09:07 pm | May 12, 2017
Be a change agent. Not a chief scapegoat officer. 
Privacy & Security
By Tom Sullivan | 04:49 pm | May 12, 2017
Hackers are using old tools like Macros and Windows Powershell in new ways to infiltrate hospitals and other organizations.