The HIT infrastructure landscape is rapidly changing, and organizations should keep their eyes on artificial intelligence (AI), cultural advancement, and processes becoming products as the result if increased digital capabilities and continuous conceptual changes in technology, according to Gartner.
Gartner analysts explored the near future of...
Organizations are broadening their healthcare networks to reach out beyond the confines of the facility. In order to do this successfully there needs to be more visibility and control over the network, and many organizations are turning to software-defined networking gain more control.
SDN uses virtualization to remove the intelligent...
Healthcare organizations are looking to standardize and consolidate their picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) as health systems continue to merge and grow, according to a recent KLAS report.
PACS provide storage and convenient access to medical images such as ultrasounds, MRIs, CTs, and x-rays. PACS started to become popular during...
ClearDATA announced its achievement of Amazon Web Services (AWS) DevOps Competency status. This designation indicates that payers and providers can use ClearDATA to integrate into onto the cloud with automated safeguards and configuration management tools on AWS.
The AWS Competency Program identifies technology partners to take advantage of the...
Advancing HIT infrastructure technology calls for organizations to use tools to help IT staff with mundane repetitive tasks so they can spend more time innovating and planning for the future. This drive for simplified management through advanced technology is prompting organizations to adopt HIT infrastructure automation.
While many other...
Organizations are introducing more healthcare cloud tools to their IT infrastructure, making the prospect of managing them a growing challenge. Selecting a cloud management platform (CMP) can give IT staff visibility and control over multiple cloud environments.
“CMPs provide a means for a cloud service customer to manage the deployment and...
Reducing patient visits and improving long-term patient health motivate healthcare organizations to embrace remote patient monitoring. However without the healthcare network to support healthcare monitoring devices, organizations can’t fully support remote monitoring programs.
Reducing hospital visits by remotely monitoring patients helps...
Clinicians and patients are connecting to the network using healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The increased number of devices connecting to the network can cause security concerns which blockchain may be able to solve in the near future.
Blockchain and IoT are bother relatively new to the healthcare space. The IoT increases data flows...
Healthcare blockchain is gaining traction as health IT vendors and provider organizations look to the technology to decentralize data exchange to provide improved data protection. Understanding the healthcare blockchain standards being used in healthcare is key to developing a successful way to exchange data.
The success of blockchain in healthcare...
The Interoperability Standards Advisory’s (ISA) annual comment and review period comes to a close at 5 pm, ET, on October 1. The process began to help determine how the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) will implement specifications for the healthcare industry to exchange data and promote interoperability...
The dependence on mobile networks to keep patients and clinicians connected is expected to increase dramatically over the next several years, according to the latest GSMA Mobile Industry Impact Report. This increased availability is expected to encourage healthcare mobile development.
One of the most significant ways increased mobility has...
Network connections continue to be a challenge as healthcare organizations improve their healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure.
“The rising demand of chronic disease management, better connectivity between doctors and patients, and enhanced drug delivery systems in healthcare sectors have created the demand for IoT in the...
Healthcare organizations participating in the value-based care environment are in need of strong, secure data pipelines that can help them communicate across disparate health systems to coordinate and streamline patient care.
As providers build out the infrastructure required to support meaningful health information exchange, they are keeping their...
Organizations continue to adapt their IT infrastructure to accommodate healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) as IT systems become more complex and data sets become more robust.
IDC predicts that spending on cognitive and AI technologies will triple by 2022 at CAGR of 37 percent.
"The market for AI continues to grow at a rapid pace,"...
Healthcare organizations are facing a “perfect storm” when it comes to HIT infrastructure security, ERI Co-Founder and Executive Chairman John Shegerian said in a report.
The growth in hardware hacking puts patient data at risk for providers that host their datacenters on-premises and healthcare data hosted in off-premises...
FUJIFILM Medical Systems is extending its partnership with the American College of Radiology to provide the healthcare organization with picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) to help educate its students.
"We value our continued partnership with ACR. We believe when radiologists and imaging professionals are actively trained and...
Nearly 50 percent of healthcare organizations have doubts in their disaster recovery solutions as hurricane season begins to threaten the US, according to a DrFirst survey.
Hurricane Florence is about to make landfall on the East Coast and many healthcare organizations may be unable to access digital tools or communicate information effectively....
The healthcare cloud computing market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 18 percent through 2023, according the a new Markets and Markets report.
The predicted growth includes applications such as EHRs, picture archive communication systems (PACS), and vendor neutral archives (VNAs), as well as services like software-as-a-service (SaaS) and...
Organizations are seeking ways to add flexibility to the ways they store and retrieve data. Healthcare multicloud can be a solution for organizations looking to add more cloud scalability to their IT infrastructure.
Ninety percent of enterprise organizations plan to utilize multiple clouds as part of their IT infrastructure over the next several...
Healthcare organizations are adding more digital tools and trying to process growing amounts of data more quickly to meet enterprise demands.
Many organizations have looked to the cloud for the best solution for democratizing data access and moving data around more quickly. While the cloud offers a number of advantages in these areas, it may not be...
