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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.

• Do You Know What That App Is Doing?

  8/22/2019

  As mobile devices become more common in the workplace, IT departments need to understand and prepare for the security risks that these devices introduce. Beyond the security of the device itself (which is a significant issue in its own right), there’s a very real risk of third-party apps secretly accessing corporate data. In some cases, the app is a legitimate service gathering user data on the side for their own marketing purposes or to sell. Alternatively, many malicious apps will mimic real ones to trick users into downloading spyware and adware to steal passwords or financial information.

• Improving Revenue Cycle Performance With Comparative Analytics

  6/28/2017

  How can you determine whether your organization’s business performance is clicking on all cylinders? Many organizations have invested in business intelligence tools to help measure their internal performance, evaluate areas in need of improvement, and identify best practices. Yet, what exactly are “best practices” and how can an organization know if their practices truly are best? By Chris Bodam, RemitDATA

• Healthcare Organizations Need To Get Serious About Managing Risk

  5/30/2019

  The healthcare industry is a high-pressure, life-impacting industry which can be made even more complicated by the growing number of regulatory requirements. Many of the most challenging mandates are focused on securing critical data and systems within the organizations infrastructure. If not secured properly, cyber threats can be the outcome and are usually associated with insufficient controls, employee risks and negligence.

• National Health IT Week: Streamlining Patient Care by Minimizing Alarm Fatigue

  10/5/2015

  National Health IT Week is about recognizing the ways delivery of care is changing. Healthcare is in a period of transition that is changing how care is delivered. Health information is shared, quality is measured, reimbursements are dispersed, and patients are becoming engaged in their own. Today’s technology is advancing quickly and is a reliable tool to support these changes and advancements. Nurses are at the forefront of transforming care with increased responsibility placed on them to achieve better patient outcomes. As nurses balance delivering care at more reasonable costs with providing chronic care management to an aging, sicker, and more diverse population, supporting technology must be finely tuned to meet their needs. By Rhonda Collins, Chief Nursing Officer, Vocera Communications

• Enabling A Consumer eHealth Ecosystem With A Continuum of Connectivity

  2/19/2016

  Consumer eHealth is empowering consumers through apps, social media, portals, medical devices, and other means to better manage and influence their health and wellness, access healthcare services, and improve workflows with their caregivers. In combination with mobile health (mHealth) modalities oriented around digital healthcare technologies, such as clinical diagnostics and electronic health record systems, and virtual health capabilities as exemplified by live, asynchronous clinical visits to a healthcare organization, this potent trifecta has the potential to fundamentally create a truly patient-centric ecosystem of health and wellness services. By Eric Abbott, director of product management and health facility technology, ExteNet Systems