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• Software And Hardware End-Of-Life Risks For Healthcare

  3/25/2019

  We often find that it is the critical systems that run the unsupported software or hardware. While most IT teams know the importance of unsupported systems and life cycle management, competing priorities and the approach of “if it’s not broken” is often taken with legacy systems.

• Wearables Have To Evolve To Remain Relevant

  12/2/2015

  When wearables arrived on the stage a few years ago, they were mainly seen as devices peripheral to healthcare. Since then, their popularity has surged, primarily due to the increase in sales of fitness trackers and smart watches. Now, many believe the power of wearable technology could be the key to solving some of healthcare’s biggest challenges. Others, however, predict wearables are merely a passing fad that will soon fade. What’s clear is that in order to make the potential for wearables a reality, the application of the technology will need to change. So the time has come for the wearables’ manufacturers to fully grasp the importance of Darwin’s famous postulate — Evolve to Survive — and act accordingly. By Murtuza Mukadam, Virtusa Corporation

• The Digital Healthcare Evolution: How Experimentation Can Help Build The Future Of Patient-Centered Care

  2/12/2016

  A lot happens in 60 seconds on the internet. More than 293,000 Facebook statuses are updated, 550,000 tweets written, and 2.78 million YouTube videos watched in this small amount of time.

• Accelerating The Time To Value From Advanced Analytics

  2/19/2020

  Why should healthcare executives care about analytics and connected analytics in particular? Because healthcare is in a state of enormous disruption and transformation.

• At The Intersection Of Nursing And Technology

  5/9/2017

  The future of nursing will be for all nurses to work as nurse informacists, sharing their expertise with developers of communication and information technologies, software engineers, and developers and implementation consultants to advance healthcare and support the best patient outcomes.

• The Future Of Patient Safety Points To Technology

  6/11/2018

  Patient safety is one of the leading concerns within the healthcare industry worldwide. There are 440,000 preventable adverse events that contribute to patient deaths in U.S. hospitals every year, making preventable diseases the third leading cause of death behind heart disease and cancer. Additionally, approximately one in 10 hospitalized patients experience harm due to medical errors, and of those one in 10, at least 50 percent were preventable medical errors. Decreasing medical errors and improving patient outcomes are key priorities for people across the healthcare industry, but reaching these goals has proven to be an ongoing challenge.