Infrastructure Security

Blockchain Helps Keep Healthcare Data Secure for the Homeless

May 18, 2021 - Technology solutions, including blockchain, can be used to keep crucial healthcare information secure and portable for homeless individuals, according to researchers from Dell Medical School at the University of Texas Austin. Missing proof of identify is a major challenge for the homeless population when it comes to crucial services, such as...

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Digital Preparedness Helped Healthcare Adapt to COVID-19

by Samantha McGrail

A recent study from Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) found that digital preparedness significantly helped healthcare organizations adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic. The EIU interviewed business leaders...

Change Healthcare, AWS Launch Data Science as Service Offering

by Samantha McGrail

Change Healthcare and Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced a new Data Science-as-a-Service (DSaaS) offering to help life science organizations.  The DSaas offering provides de-identified...

InterSystems Updates Health IT Suite to Boost FHIR Capabilities

by Samantha McGrail

InterSystems recently updated the availability of a suite of connected health solutions to improve Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) capabilities, as well as application program...

Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare Will Be Generally Available Oct. 30

by Samantha McGrail

Microsoft recently announced that Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare will generally be available on October 30, 2020, including managed services to support healthcare organizations.  The cloud...

Microsoft, Allscripts, to Enhance Cloud-Based Health IT Solutions

by Samantha McGrail

Microsoft and Allscripts recently announced a five-year extension of their long-standing collaboration, which will expand the development and delivery of cloud-based health IT solutions. The extension...

Medicaid Needs Health IT Infrastructure Update for Enrollment Bump

by Samantha McGrail

Although the COVID-19 pandemic exposed many of the weaknesses in the healthcare system, one of the most prominent weakness that has affected the country is antiquated health IT infrastructure in the...

New Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare to Tackle COVID-19 Challenges

by Samantha McGrail

Microsoft recently announced its first industry-specific cloud offering that allows organizations to engage in more proactive ways with their patients and gives caregivers the tools to improve workflow...

Google Cloud, Splunk Help Orgs Boost IT Infrastructure Security

by Samantha McGrail

Google Cloud and Splunk Inc, recently announced a strategic partnership to help organizations leverage data analytics for IT infrastructure security and drive actionable insights from their...

IBM Leverages Artificial Intelligence to Automate IT Infrastructure

by Samantha McGrail

IBM recently launched new capabilities and services powered by artificial intelligence to help chief information officers (CIOs) help their businesses recover and restart in the wake of the COVID-19...

Hospitals Prepping Health IT Infrastructure for COVID-19 Outbreak

by Samantha McGrail

Information-technology leaders are racing to get ahead of health IT infrastructure challenges and provide employees with remote work tools as they anticipate shortages due to the COVID-19 outbreak,...

Iron Mountain Announces $225M Data Center Campus Expansion

by Samantha McGrail

Storage and information management leader Iron Mountain announced the expansion of its data center campus in North Virginia, with the construction of VA-2 underway. Iron Mountain predicted that it...

Interoperable IT Infrastructure Vital to Link Healthcare, Social Care

by Fred Donovan

The United States needs to develop interoperable IT infrastructure that will facilitate the integration of healthcare and social care, advised a new report from the National Academies of Sciences,...

D-H’s High-Tech Hub Provides Advanced IT for Its Telehealth Services

by Fred Donovan

Dartmouth-Hitchcock (D-H) has set up a high-tech hub to provide advanced IT infrastructure to run its Tele-Intensive Care Unit (TeleICU) and TeleEmergency services for rural hospitals in New...

Healthcare IT Network Harbors Most Prominent Vulnerabilities

by Fred Donovan

The healthcare IT network harbors the most prominent vulnerabilities in healthcare organizations, judged 232 healthcare security decision makers surveyed by Vanson Bourne on behalf of security firm...

Healthcare Blockchain Could Save Industry $100B Annually by 2025

by Fred Donovan

Healthcare blockchain could save the industry up to $100 billion per year in costs related to IT, operations, support functions, personnel, and health data breaches by 2025, estimated a report by BIS...

Colorado To Get $64M in Federal Funds for Health IT Infrastructure

by Fred Donovan

Colorado is set to receive $64 million in federal funds to invest in health IT infrastructure and to implement the state’s Health IT Roadmap, Governor Jared Polis announced recently. Polis...

HRSA Allots $42M to Health Centers for Health IT Infrastructure

by Fred Donovan

HHS’s Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded close to $42 million in funding for health IT infrastructure improvements at federally funded health centers throughout the...

More Healthcare Organizations Plan to Adopt Cloud-First Approach

by Fred Donovan

A majority of healthcare organizations are ready to adopt a cloud-first approach for their health IT infrastructure, compared with only 23 percent of healthcare organizations last year, according to...

HHS to Identify Healthcare Infrastructure Critical in Emergencies

by Fred Donovan

Under legislation signed June 24 by President Trump, HHS is directed to work with other public health officials and private sector entities to identify the critical healthcare infrastructure...

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