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Wi-Fi 6, 5G Could Be Turning Point for Health IT Infrastructure

HITInfrastructure Healthcare organizations are deploying more bandwidth-intensive connected medical devices and mobile devices, which are straining existing health IT infrastructure. Next-generation wireless networking technologies, such as Wi-Fi 6 and 5G cellular, could be the solution to this growing problem. To ease network congestion, the Wi-Fi 6 wireless networking standard is expected to provide...


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Pros, Cons, and Strategies for Implementing Healthcare Multicloud

Healthcare multicloud is becoming an attractive way for organizations to deal with the explosion of digital health data in electronic health records, connected devices, Internet of Things, and healthcare apps. As more healthcare...

How Network Segregation, Segmentation Can Stop Ransomware Attacks

Ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations have been on the rise in recent years, with sometimes devastating results.* From EHR downtime to compromised patient data, these cyberattacks can significantly disrupt the operations of...

Consumers, AI Will Challenge Health IT Infrastructure Leaders in 2019

As part of the healthcare industry’s ongoing transformation, health IT infrastructure is undergoing rapid change. Seamless, future-proof health IT infrastructure development will become increasingly important as the use of artificial...

Applying Automation Technology to Health IT Infrastructure

As healthcare organizations rely more heavily on technology to support patients and clinicians, the automation of health IT infrastructure can become a valuable strategy for reducing waste and improving performance. Automation can be...

Addressing Healthcare Network Connectivity Challenges

Network connectivity is a critical piece of health IT infrastructure. As organizations continue to add connected medical devices and other IT tools to their digital environments, reliable networks are required to allow providers to interact...

Planning for Data Backup, Recovery in Health IT Infrastructure

Healthcare data backup and data recovery are critical components of every health IT infrastructure. The inability to access data is a serious issue in healthcare. Organizations constantly face the possibility of data breaches, ransomware...

Understanding Healthcare Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Healthcare Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), sometimes called Hardware-as-a-Service, is becoming more popular as organizations migrate parts of their infrastructure to the cloud. Infrastructure delivered as a service can significantly cut...

Pros and Cons of PACS, VNAs for Medical Image Data Storage

As healthcare providers invest in new medical imaging technologies that produce increasingly large and complex data files, organizations need to implement infrastructure tools that can support the storage and appropriate access of necessary...

How to Build a Successful Healthcare Mobility Solution

Mobile devices are a significant part of health IT infrastructure as users look for the most convenient ways to use devices to treat patients. Building a healthcare mobility solution is key to ensuring the devices are fully supported and...

Benefits of Software-Defined Networking in Healthcare

Healthcare organizations are rapidly introducing more connected devices into their health IT infrastructures, which calls for increased network visibility and management. Entities currently deal with Wi-Fi connectivity supporting cloud...

Healthcare Data Storage Options: On-Premise, Cloud and Hybrid Data Storage

Healthcare organizations are building their IT infrastructures to be more flexible and scalable to meet the growing data demand. With value-based incentives for data analytics and the increased number of connected medical devices constantly...

Considerations for Deploying Healthcare Wireless Networks

Wireless networks are the lifeblood health IT infrastructure, but developing and deploying reliable WiFi to support present and future IT initiatives can be a challenge.   Clinicians and staff are becoming dependent on mobile and...

Why Application Programming Interfaces Are Key for Healthcare

Healthcare organizations seeking to create interoperability between internal apps, EHRs, and other data exchange tools, are increasingly turning to application programming interfaces (APIs) to manage the flow of information between...

Understanding HIPAA-Compliant Cloud Options for Health IT

Healthcare providers looking for HIPAA-compliant applications, storage, and networking options are increasingly turning to the cloud, which has quickly become a low-cost way to develop the complex infrastructure required to support a...

Exploring Transparency-Rx’s pharmacy benefit manager partners

PharmaNewsIntelligence Transparency-Rx is a recently launched organization of transparent pharmacy benefit managers working towards addressing the ongoing challenges with pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) that have hindered access to care and significantly...

Creating a community-led telehealth approach for supportive cancer care

mHealthIntelligence Cancer is a life-changing diagnosis for the patient and everyone in their orbit. Treatment of this deadly disease is all-consuming and filled with uncertainty, because of which cancer patients are at risk of experiencing mental health and...

Unraveling confusing AI regulations, their impact on life sciences

LifeSciencesIntelligence Only 9% of life sciences professionals believe they know and understand AI regulations well, revealed the Pistoia Alliance, a non-profit that engages major pharmaceutical companies in pre-competitive collaboration, in recently published...

In medicine’s push for workforce diversity, culture of belonging is key

PatientEngagementHIT In the past decade, and especially in the last five years, healthcare has been working to crack the code of embedding antiracism into the fabric of the industry through workforce diversity. But far from the quotas sometimes conjured when...

Using the PEMAT to assess patient education materials

PatientEngagementHIT As the push for greater patient health literacy gets stronger, the Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT) could be helpful to healthcare providers. Increasingly, healthcare industry experts are touting the role that patient...