FEATURED CONTENT

• Spotlighting Third-Party Risk: How Healthcare Can Prepare For Today's Cyberthreats

  8/2/2019

  In the past month, reports surfaced concerning a successful data breach that affected at least three health diagnostics companies: Quest Diagnostics, LabCorp and BioReference Laboratories Inc. It is estimated that more than 20 million patient names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, credit cards and banking information were potentially exposed.

• Reducing The Gap In Consumer Demand For Smarter Healthcare Delivery

  8/24/2017

  It’s no secret healthcare is slow and orthodox when it comes to adoption of new technology. By Kumar Venkatesiah

• Virtual Visits Can Widen Access To High-Quality Healthcare

  6/17/2015

  If you live in an urban area, you likely take for granted there will be numerous hospitals and physician practices (including those with high-level subspecialty care) within a short distance of home. But for much of the world, access to even basic healthcare can be difficult. Those who live in rural areas of the U.S. and other countries often must travel long distances to see a primary care physician. Critical access hospitals, which provide much of the care for rural Americans, are struggling. Many are expected to close in the near future. And access to specialists and subspecialists is even more difficult. By Sid Nair, VP & Global General Manager, Dell Services Healthcare & Life Sciences

• Achieving HIPAA Compliance: IT's Indispensable Role

  8/30/2017

  In my view, the IT vendor’s proper role is to showcase the powerful economic rationale for those in healthcare to get out of the practice of buying/maintaining hardware that is obsolete practically before the paint is dry. By Adam Stern, founder and CEO, Infinitely Virtual

• New Best Practices In Patient Data Transfer For EMTALA Support

  4/13/2018

  The Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA) stipulates that if an individual comes to an emergency treatment facility in need of care, the hospital must either treat the individual to stabilize the medical condition or transfer the individual to a facility that can treat the condition. In any event, a hospital must provide medical care, regardless of the individual’s insurance status or ability to pay.

• Your IoT Device Against The World

  9/22/2020

  With the rapid increase of the Internet of Things (IoT), the world around us now has billions of devices connected to the internet. IoT consists of devices for the healthcare industry, consumer marketplace, industrial sensors for manufacturing, and automotive electronics. While all of these devices have gone through performance testing before their introduction, the likelihood of interference in crowded wireless environments means there’s no guarantee they will operate as intended.