Network Infrastructure

Marianne Slight, product manager at Google Cloud Healthcare & Life Sciences, explains how a clinical data warehouse (CDW) works and use cases for health organizations and pharma.

Established firms have good track records, but there are high-performing developing companies, too; as providers tackled bigger strategic initiatives beyond mere EHR rollouts, they need to weigh how much they value experience and performance, a new report shows.

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With more connected medical devices, monitoring equipment and EHRs complicating healthcare’s digital transformation, organizations require heightened visibility and control over their mobile access infrastructure, the companies said.

A centralised digital pathology system implemented by the Northern Cancer Alliance is set to speed up cancer diagnosis for patients at nine hospitals by giving clinicians a single view of records and slides, regardless of location.

A new assessment of cybersecurity threats highlights consumers’ growing role and predicts things will get worse before they get better.

Because a new class of devices is emerging, WannaCry is very aggressive and a variety of other factors, the healthcare industry is still at risk from the ransomware.

The unauthorized access also included Social Security numbers, credit card data and banking information – but not laboratory results, the company said.

The wide array of connected devices means "lot of different stakeholders that need to coordinate," on both the clinical and IT side. That requires "process and due diligence."