FEATURED CONTENT

• Crowd-Solving The Employee Retention Crisis: Keeping Nurses Happy And On The Job

  2/1/2018

  Nurses are, in many ways, unsung heroes. They serve in one of the noblest professions, but in many healthcare systems they are overworked and underappreciated. In hospital settings, they are at risk of injury and exposure to dangerous pathogens. The National Healthcare Retention and Staffing Report, produced annually by Nursing Solutions, Inc., found that turnover of registered nurses stood at 16.2 percent in 2016. The rate is much higher for Certified Nursing Assistants and in specific departments such as emergency care and behavioral health.

• Multi-Factor Authentication Gains Traction In Healthcare

  4/11/2016

  In the early days of the Internet, there wasn’t a lot of user information stored on websites and publicly accessible databases. The only thing a user went to a healthcare website for was to check office hours or find a phone number. She wouldn’t need to access sensitive materials because the majority of them weren’t stored electronically. As for medical records and billing transactions — it was all paper, all the time.

• How Conversational AI Helps Restore The Doctor-Patient Relationship

  7/24/2020

  Artificial intelligence (AI) is known for using Big Data to detect anomalies in medical imaging, predict health outcomes, personalize treatment plans, even perform robotic surgery. One of the newest entrants to the AI movement is a form of “conversational AI” aimed at helping restore the doctor-patient relationship by alleviating the documentation burden.

• 3 Ways Telehealth Benefits Patients And Providers

  6/27/2016

  In a time when consumers are getting much of their information on-demand, they are also starting to expect more convenience from healthcare. For example, most patients report the desire to contact their doctor through email or virtual visits. In short, telemedicine provides the convenient, time-saving access to health care that consumers want.

• What's Your Strategy When HIPAA-Protected Data Literally Flies Out the Window?

  9/21/2016

  User frustration with technology is one thing. But aggravations that turn into veritable threats to data security? Those tend to be a touch more serious. And safeguarding all the places sensitive data ends up gets seemingly more complex by the year, thanks to the bevy of laptops, phones, and tablets we employees need to get our work done (whether those are company-issued devices or not). By Cam Roberson, Director of the Reseller Channel, Beachhead Solutions

• Higher Education Should Be Enlisted To Defend Patients Against Looming Cyber Threats

  12/29/2015

  In his comments to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in September 2015, Brian Dishman of Intel Corporation described the “constellation” of health data that surrounds each of us. From diagnostic, to consumer-generated, to genomic data, the potential is limitless. But, he warned, without secure and timely access to that data, we are missing the transformative opportunity to improve health outcomes for patients. Dishman’s comments were born of experience. A cancer survivor of more than two decades, his treatment was riddled by miscommunication between practitioners and lack of collaboration across health systems. Put simply, for more than 20 years he was subjected to what has become a garish, nationwide reality: American healthcare organizations are suffering from a fundamental inability to process and disseminate health data in a secure and expedient way to both consumers and providers. By J.A. Eve Krahe, Ph.D., dean of graduate programs, University of Phoenix School of Health Services Administration