Healthcare

Interoperability – Building a Roadmap

Where will the road take us? Are we there yet? Familiar phrases amongst road-trippers and travelers, but it’s not a strategy for Healthcare Interoperability. This road needs to be planned out and built with flexibility; a framework for what the future may bring. Consider the interstate road systems across North America. It cannot get you everywhere you want to go, but it provides a route to get you most of the way there that is efficient and provides services along the way.

Managed Cloud Services

Get Your Head in the Cloud: Managed Cloud Services Help Healthcare Organizations Attain Digital Transformation

Six out of 10 healthcare organizations are adopting a hybrid approach to cloud adoption, a recent CHIME survey of healthcare IT executives found, while 10% rely on public cloud services and 11% use a private-cloud approach. Yet 47% say it’s too early to tell whether their investment is providing value—a finding that could point to the value of a managed services approach.

Survey Illustrates Importance of a Strategic Approach to Healthcare Cloud Investment

By 2025, experts expect the healthcare cloud computing market to reach $64.7 billion as organizations seek to improve operational and clinical efficiencies. The business case for moving to the cloud is clear. To achieve digital transformation—which involves automation—the cloud is the best place to implement artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotic process automation, and more.

Stepping Up Security of Sensitive Data: 3 Questions Health IT Leaders Should Consider 

In October 2021, a ransomware attack compromised the insurance, diagnosis, treatment and other protected health information (PHI) of some 400,000 patients of a women’s health clinic in Los Angeles. The same month, hackers broke into the computer systems of a Florida-based healthcare network, compromising the PHI of some 1.3 million members.

Ethical Considerations of Healthcare’s ‘Alphabet Soup’: AI, ML and NLP

Recently, researchers unveiled a technique for using artificial intelligence (AI) to diagnose COVID-19 from X-rays in mere minutes, compared with waiting hours for the results of a PCR test. It’s yet another example of the in-roads AI and its offspring, machine language (ML) and natural language processing (NLP), are making in medicine.

Healthcare Triangle Cloud and Data Platform (CaDP) Achieves HITRUST Certification

Through and beyond the global pandemic, ensuring regulatory compliance and data security is critical for leaders across the accelerating healthcare and life sciences industries. Organizations dealing with a patient’s personal health information must meet the required regulations for protecting and securing the information to avoid data breaches. Working with a HITRUST certified vendor can assure partners and patients that their data is maintained with the highest level of security.

EHR Blog

Reducing Physician Burnout with EHR Optimization: 3 Examples

Even before the pandemic, American Medical Association research linked breakdowns in EHR usability to physician burnout. Now, with 51% of physicians saying the time they spend on the EHR outside scheduled work time is “excessive” or “moderately high,” identifying ways to optimize use of the EHR is emerging as a key way to relieve physicians’ administrative burden and bring back joy in medicine.

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