Tips

Tips

• Vendors of public cloud platforms pitching to health IT

  Unmoved by the benefits of shifting some of their operations to the public cloud, some healthcare providers are letting cloud providers bring their services to them.  Continue Reading

• Reduce or prevent healthcare cybersecurity attacks

  In this Q&A, the former CIO of Community Health Systems discusses how to prevent healthcare cyberattacks and lessons learned during his career.  Continue Reading

• Former healthcare CIO talks cybersecurity in healthcare

  A CIO whose healthcare organization was an early victim of cyberattacks talks about what should be done to remain secure.  Continue Reading

• Common failures of responding to security breaches in healthcare

  Attackers that cause healthcare data breaches can sometimes access the breached systems later on. Health IT departments should factor delayed hacks into their recovery plans.  Continue Reading

• Benefits of single sign-on in healthcare

  Does your healthcare organization understand the benefits of single sign-on products? Learn how healthcare professionals quickly log on to multiple applications without much hassle.  Continue Reading

• HIPAA covered entities to be tested by audits in 2016

  The Office for Civil Rights, under HHS, is ready to begin the next wave of HIPAA compliance audits on covered entities. Find out what they should expect and how to prepare.  Continue Reading

• Radiology to gain from artificial intelligence in healthcare

  Some radiologists may be unsure of how much they can trust artificial intelligence, but they should see it as a tool to review their work and check it against similar cases.  Continue Reading

• Cloud medical imaging storage is the way of the future

  PACS and VNAs are the image storage standards in healthcare. Cloud medical imaging storage presents benefits that may intrigue healthcare providers to ditch PACS and VNAs.  Continue Reading

• Undeveloped interoperability in healthcare isolates patient data

  Interoperability in healthcare isn't as advanced as it is in other industries. One innovator used an existing health IT standard to make it easier to share disparate data.  Continue Reading

• Physicians hope to make changes to EHR market

  The EHR market is saturated with traditional on-premises options, leaving newer vendors to carefully consider which platforms and customers to target.  Continue Reading

• The diverse use cases for cloud in healthcare

  Healthcare cloud services come in various forms, including analytics models and system backups. Those are two of the reasons cloud has the attention of health IT professionals.  Continue Reading

• Paper health records slowly being phased out by hospitals

  Paper health records and other forms are frequently scanned into hospitals' electronic systems. Find out why an organization hired a third party to do its scanning.  Continue Reading

• Make patient documentation more flexible with SharePoint

  Enterprise content management systems, such as Microsoft's SharePoint, can aid clinical staff with patient documentation tasks.  Continue Reading

• Clinical analytics platforms simplify healthcare data mining

  It can be difficult to organize and make sense of healthcare data sets without the help of clinical analytics. Find out what you should know before buying an analytics product.  Continue Reading

• Telemedicine technology and patient engagement initiatives

  Vendors of unified communications systems are aware of the value their products offer to healthcare providers with telemedicine technology.  Continue Reading