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Automation has been making human workers superfluous for centuries, but until recently, workers whose jobs required high-level cognitive skills have been able to rest easy, confident no machine could possibly replace them when it came to making nuanced decisions based on the evaluation of complicated, sometimes contradictory data. By Khal Rai, Senior Vice President, Product Development & Operations, SRS Health

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  • Preparation — Not Payment: How To Protect Your Healthcare Organization From A Ransomware Attack
    5/14/2018

    Just this past month (in March), Geneva, N.Y.-based Finger Lakes Health lost computer access and most of its phone lines after a hacker hijacked its systems and demanded payment to unlock them. After going into what it called “downtime paper” mode for about a week, Finger Lakes paid the ransom, for an undisclosed amount. “We’ve become very accustomed to relying on digital-everything — and this type of breach sets us back 30, 40 or 50 years,” an employee remarked, in describing the incident’s immediate impact.

  • Cybersecurity: The Threat Hospitals Can No Longer Ignore
    8/7/2017

    Golden Eye/Petya, the latest ransomware attack devastating businesses from shipping companies to banks and even drug manufacturers across the U.K., has brought to the fore the seriousness of cybersecurity and why it is an issue hospitals cannot afford to ignore. In May 2017, the WannaCry ransomware attack crippled nearly a quarter of the hospitals in the U.K. and infected 200,000 computers across 150 countries, providing another stark example of what could happen here in the U.S. By Justin Sotomayor, pharmacy informatics director, CompleteRx

  • What Will Be Physicians' Prescription To Cure Healthcare?
    9/28/2017

    Have you ever come across the story of Dr. Reed of MS Family Medicine Health care? The story where her consistent efforts to stay connected with her patients had helped them achieve not just their personal health goals but also improve their overall health status. By Abhinav Shashank, co-founder and CEO, Innovaccer

  • What Is A Vendor Neutral Archive, Anyway?
    9/2/2010
    The term Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) is used by many vendors of PACS software to identify the core of their product--the component that is used to reliably manage, store, retrieve, and query medical images and related information. By OTech, Inc.
  • Healthcare Is Stepping Up To The Plate To Revamp The Industry!
    5/15/2018

    Technology is evolving at a stormy speed with time, and the new technological advancements have not left even the healthcare industry untouched. A plenty of new-age solutions, transformation of the EHRs and EMRs, patient portals with enhance offerings etc. are already marking the advancement of healthcare technology. However, in the coming years, healthcare industry is going to get a lot more than anticipated when it comes to the high-grade technological solutions. With the integration of AI based solutions to the application of machine learning, healthcare industry seems to have a highly advanced future.

  • The Tripwire HIPAA Solution: Meeting The Security Standards Set Forth In Section 164
    11/3/2009
    On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The law includes new rules that affect the health care industry and those entities that might handle, process or maintain personal health information. This paper is intended for organizations that know they are a CE (Covered Entities). By Tripwire, Inc.

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