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• Healthcare's Spike In Cloud Adoption Raises Questions For Hospitals And Security Practitioners

  9/4/2018

  It might come as a surprise, being in one of the most highly-regulated industries around, that the healthcare sector has made significant strides when it comes to embracing the public cloud and the myriad cloud applications that exist today. Messaging apps like Slack enable rapid communication while file sync and share apps like Box enable instant collaboration. A good example of a cloud app that has become essential in large enterprises is Microsoft’s Office 365. Adoption in the healthcare industry has nearly doubled in since 2016, up from 30.9 to 57.3 percent in 2018. At the same time, with adoption of new technologies, the door is often left open for nefarious actors to take advantage of misconfigurations and careless employee practices that leave data exposed.

• How Telehealth Is Driving Engagement And Shaping The ACO Model Of The Future

  10/23/2015

  The U.S. healthcare industry is rapidly transitioning beyond the traditional focus of treating individual patients’ physical conditions. Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and similar arrangements are leading the way, structured specifically to reward progress toward achieving the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience, improving the health of populations and reducing the cost of care. Fully addressing these dynamics By Derek Richards, PhD, director of clinical research and innovation, SilverCloud Health

• What Is Blockchain And How Can It Be Used In Healthcare?

  4/26/2018

  Blockchain technology started as the basis for Bitcoin that allowed the cryptocurrency to operate but now it has spread to various other industries as well like healthcare. Blockchain systems are actually decentralised distributed ledger systems created by app Development Company that record transactions on blocks that are linked together and store them on an encrypted digital ledger. Since the entire blockchain system is decentralised it has no one central administrator which imparts the system extreme security because records are spread across a network of replicated databases that are always in sync. All entries in a blockchain system are time and date stamped that can only be accessed and updated by authorised users.

• 4 Healthcare Interoperability Predictions For 2015

  12/12/2014

  The outlook for healthcare providers’ efforts to improve the sharing of patient information is one of slow but sustained progress over the next 12 months. With this year fast approaching its close and 2015 just around the corner, now is a good time to consider what’s likely to take place in the arena of healthcare IT interoperability. By Konstantinos Klitsas, president, Talent Advisors, LLC

• 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.

• 6 Ways Using Mobile Tablets For Patient Check-In Deliver ROI To Healthcare Enterprises

  3/12/2018

  The advancement and ubiquity of technology is providing health systems the option to rapidly migrate to tablet-based technology platforms, which increase patient engagement and deliver measurable return on investment.