More than half of healthcare organizations expect their IT strategy to include multicloud and hybrid cloud going forward, according to a report by 451 Research on behalf of Virtustream.
Multicloud is the use of multiple cloud computing and storage services in a single heterogeneous architecture. Multicloud differs from hybrid cloud, which is the...
The Austin Blockchain Collective is teaming with Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin to develop healthcare blockchain applications for better patient outcomes.
The two organizations are setting up the Austin Blockchain Collective Healthcare Working Group with membership to include local blockchain innovators from the...
The Department of Justice (DoJ) is fining Kansas-based Coffey Health System $250,000 for lying about its EHR security to get Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments.
In its lawsuit, DoJ alleges that Coffee Health System falsely attested that it conducted and reviewed security risk analyses of its EHR system to fulfill requirements under...
Japanese researchers have successfully incorporated facial recognition technology into an automated system that can predict when intensive care unit (ICU) patients are at high risk of unsafe behavior, such as removing their breathing tubes.
The automated risk detection tool can continuously monitor a patient’s safety and ease limitations...
Researchers from the University of Illinois have modified a flash-based solid-state drive (SSD) to fight ransomware attacks that plague healthcare organizations and other industries.
When a file is updated, rather than discarding the old file version immediately, the modified SSD developed by the researchers saves the updated version to a new...
UCLA Health is deploying cloud computing to better harness healthcare data for medical research and enable precision medicine.
The academic medical center is using Microsoft Azure cloud services to bring together disparate clinical and research data onto one platform.
“The integration of information from structured data, like lab results and...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has repeatedly tried and failed to fix IT system problems with its Family Caregiver Program, according to a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.
The Family Caregiver Program was set up in 2011 to provide support and services to family caregivers of post-9/11 veterans who had a serious...
Health insurance legacy IT infrastructure was designed for transactions centered around claims, not for a consumer-engaged environment, observed Beth O’Rorke, chief information officer and senior vice president at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.*
Moving to a consumer-engaged environment requires different IT systems to unlock...
CAMBRIDGE—Middlesex Health in Middletown, CT, gets 10,000 emergency calls per year, but the first responders were getting frustrated by the expensive but unreliable ruggedized laptops they were using to access the cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) and other online resources.
“Our EMS [emergency medical service] workers were a...
CAMBRIDGE—CIOs and other IT leaders should keep these three ideas in mind when developing their data analytics strategies, advised Barbara Haley Wixom, PhD, principal research scientist at MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research.
These ideas are: 1) generate top-line returns from data, 2) build information business capabilities, and...
James Byrne, acting deputy secretary at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), told a Senate panel that the aging health IT infrastructure at VA facilities might complicate implementation of his agency’s electronic health record (EHR) modernization effort.
Byrne said his department has identified “limiting features” that could...
Boston Children’s Hospital is developing an AI system to analyze medical imaging for pediatric patients, the Boston Business Journal (BBJ) reported.
The hospital is partnering with GE Healthcare to embed AI-based software into the vendor’s medical imaging equipment, the report explained.
Boston Children’s consulted with its...
Only 37 percent of healthcare executives are “very confident” that they are building sufficient security and privacy controls into their healthcare IoT deployments, according to a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
At the same time, 83 percent of healthcare executives said that Internet of Things (IoT) devices are critical to at...
More than two-thirds (70 percent) of 242 healthcare provider executives surveyed by Reaction Data said that the IT industry is headed for the cloud.
Fourteen percent said that cloud computing was an intriguing concept but not ready for prime time in healthcare, and 10 percent said it was overhyped.
Respondents were asked how cloud is superior to...
Ochsner LSU Health Monroe in northeast Louisiana has launched a telehealth ICU (teleICU) program that uses two-way audiovisual communications technology to connect its ICU patients with medical specialits at the Ochsner LSU Health Academic Medical Center in Shreveport.
Shreveport-based experts can collaborate with the local team in Monroe on...
Insiders pose the biggest security threat to healthcare organizations, according to Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR).
A disturbing 60 percent of data breaches involved insiders, including doctors and nurses, 42 percent involved external actors, 4 percent involved partners, and 3 percent involved multiple parties, the...
Google has selected 20 winners for its AI Impact Challenge, including six health AI projects.
Winners receive funding from a $25 million pool as well as coaching from Google AI experts and consulting from Google Cloud.
Google said it received applications from 119 countries with projects ranging from environmental to humanitarian. From these...
Despite a previous reluctance to put sensitive data in the cloud, healthcare IT pros now see cloud computing as a way to improve their data security and compliance posture.
That is one conclusion of a survey of 108 IT pros conducted by Datamation.
In fact, 25 percent of respondents said their top priority for their cloud strategy in the year ahead...
The National Health Security Preparedness Index report called on federal, state, and local governments to increase funding for health security infrastructure projects, after a 20-year decline in investment.
The index authors recommended that the federal government estimate the costs required to establish a “robust health security...
Clinicians spend more than twice the time they want to on healthcare supply chain tasks, according to a survey of 306 clinicians and hospital supply chain decision makers by Cardinal Health. Twenty percent of clinicians said that supply chain tasks are "stressing them out."
The survey identified the following sources of clinical staff frustration...
