How to Efficiently Optimize Existing Health IT Infrastructures
At HIMSS14, infrastructure was on the minds of many attendees. In the above video, AirStrip CEO Alan Portela talks about how healthcare organizations can economically optimize technology...
View ArticleThe Impact of Healthcare Data Breaches
The U.S. federal government recognizes the risk of data breaches to the healthcare industry and has enacted laws to mandate protection of personally identifiable information. This information,...
View ArticleGrowing Concern about Healthcare Privacy, But What to Do?
A recent Reuters / Ipsos poll finds that 51 percent of Americans are spooked by Internet companies and their growing ambitions, “with a majority worried that Internet companies are encroaching too much...
View ArticleWhy You Need Cloud Security for Health IT
Security breaches can be costly for healthcare organizations and put vital patient data at risk. As the role of cloud computing becomes more prevalent, the need for security remains a hot topic for...
View ArticleProviding More Patient-Level Data
Below is the latest in a series of guest posts from Nirav R. Shah, MD, MPH, the commissioner of health for the state of New York. Look for more of his blogs in the Intel Health & Life Sciences...
View ArticleWhat to Do with Legacy Healthcare Enterprise Solutions
Mixing old and new technologies is a pain point for many healthcare CIOs. Recently, we caught up with Jeff Fleming, Vice President Americas for Carestream, who talked about legacy healthcare...
View ArticleThe Rise of Patient Empowerment
Technology is pushing patient participation to new levels. How is this trend changing the face of healthcare IT infrastructures? In the above video, CDW business development manager Kimberly Krisik...
View ArticleAnalytics at Core of Patient Care
In the above video, Saurabh Swarup, practice leader for healthcare analytics at Dell Services, talks about why healthcare is behind on utilizing analytics, and how analytics will ultimately be at the...
View ArticleHow GATK is Advancing Genomic Analysis
As we get closer to the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo next week, we’re taking a more focused look at analytics this week and how data impacts both clinical health IT and genomic research...
View ArticleWhat Happens When Data Integration and Mobile Platforms Combine?
As Bio-IT World approaches next week, we are sharing a pre-show guest blog series from industry experts on trends you can expect to hear about at the event. Below is a guest contribution from Robert...
View ArticleHow to Make Health IT Analytics Useful
The convergence of clinical analytics and genomic data in healthcare is well underway. That’s why we recently gathered a panel of experts to discuss how analytics can be turned into powerful...
View ArticleHead in the Cloud(s)?
As Bio-IT World approaches next week, we are sharing a pre-show guest blog series from industry experts on trends you can expect to hear about at the event. Below is a guest contribution from Phil...
View ArticleHow to Make Health IT Data Actionable
Making big data actionable is one of the key components of healthcare analytics. It’s on the mind of many CMIOs who are planning for the explosion of data coming into their infrastructures. In the...
View ArticleBio IT: Getting to the Heart of Traumatic Brain Injury
As Bio-IT World approaches this week, we are sharing a pre-show guest blog series from industry experts on trends you can expect to hear about at the event. Below is a guest contribution from Dr. Pek...
View ArticleMobile Tablet Devices Impacting Health IT
How big is mobility in today’s health IT environment? In the above video, Scott Rehling, senior manager of strategic channels at Motion Computing, talks about the growing trend toward mobility in...
View ArticleEnabling Healthcare with Apps – and Managing the Risks
Evernote says security has been breached by hackers. Dropbox password breach highlights cloud security weaknesses. These recent headlines are just two in a long list of examples of popular apps being...
View ArticleImproving Healthcare Solution Usability with Single Sign-On
In a 2013 HIMSS global security survey of 674 frontline healthcare workers (Workarounds in Healthcare, a Risky Trend), too many layers of login was cited by 36 percent as a key driver compelling the...
View ArticleSecure Healthcare Analytics in the Cloud
The benefits of analytics in healthcare are compelling, and big data is fueling this with increasing quantity and quality of patient data with potential to enable major improvements in evidence based...
View ArticleUsability and Security: Two Key Ingredients in a Healthy Solution Recipe
When security technologies are introduced together with usability improvements in healthcare solutions they have a much greater chance of being approved and winning acceptance by healthcare workers....
View ArticlePreventing Future Healthcare IT Infections by Strengthening Your Security...
Healthcare IT is moving away from the top down, “command and control” model of 10 years ago. Back then, IT provisioned all devices and the mobile device environment was more homogeneous, strongly...
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