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• How Can Document Scanning Protect You From Swine Flu?

  9/23/2009

  It’s the biggest healthcare story of 2009. The World Health Organization has declared the swine flu pandemic the first in 41 years. In order to manage this crisis, the healthcare community will need to use technology to track patients and countermeasures in order to quickly analyze what is working and what needs to be changed. By Mike Stuhley is the president of GoScan, Inc.
• How to Approach Healthcare IT And Compliance: A Brief Tutorial On ISO 27799

  12/16/2014

  It’s been said time and again: healthcare regulations are a virtual alphabet/number soup. Entire books can be written about HIPAA regulations alone, so we’ll leave those aside for now. ISO 27001, ISO 27002, and ISO 27799 are only a few of the regulations required to protect individuals’ healthcare data. Noncompliance doesn’t only risk data loss, it also means you can incur large fines, individual, and class action lawsuits with massive punitive damages – and even be shut down. By Roy Peretz, VP of Product Management, Whitebox Security

• Let SamSam Ransomware Serve As A Reminder To Lock Down Your Environment

  4/5/2018

  When SamSam ransomware brought down Allscripts systems last month, it negatively impacted medical professionals' ability to provide appropriate patient care for more than a week. While this particular attack went after the EHR vendor, an attack like SamSam could very well take a more localized approach of going after healthcare providers’ EHR environment directly. The consequences of not being able to treat patients effectively should be a reminder for health care providers to ensure they have fundamental security controls in place to protect the integrity of their own environments.

• Getting Beyond The Telehealth 'Stop Gap' Mentality

  9/15/2020

  Since COVID-19 emerged as a major health threat, virtual care has taken off. As many as 46 percent of patients reported in late April that they had used telehealth to replace a canceled healthcare visit in 2020, while 48 percent of physicians said they had started using telehealth to treat patients.

• Silver Cross Hospital Increases Patient Satisfaction With Kiosk Technology

  1/18/2011

  This case study highlights how a self-service kiosk helped Silver Cross Hospital reduce patient wait times. Since implementing the solution Silver Cross has improved its Press Ganey wait-time rankings from the 80th to the 92nd percentile.
• Changed For The Better: A Shared Digital Communication Solution

  8/31/2021

  Fortunately for humans, we’re masters at adaptation. Whether it’s encountering different climates, environments, cultures, or even pandemics, homo sapiens have a knack for being able to deal with just about anything that Mother Nature throws at us. Though cultural anthropology dubs this ability to acclimate “biological plasticity,” actor Clint Eastwood, as a Marine in a 1980s war film, puts it more succinctly: “You adapt. You overcome. You improvise.”