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Quadruple aim: More than half of hospitals plan IT spending increases to get there
By Mike Miliard–Cloud-based technologies are the priority, says one Frost & Sullivan analyst, as health systems work to marshal data and deploy AI for quality improvement, cost reduction and improved patient and clinician experience. A new report from Frost & Sullivan finds more than 50% of hospital respondents planning to boost their information technology investments as they manage […]
Healthcare Data Interoperability
09/18/2021 By Kate Gamble When it comes to interoperability, the idea is simply for healthcare organizations to “have access to all the data that’s available on our patients and providers,” said Craig Richardville, Chief Information & Digital Officer at SCL Health, during a recent panel discussion. “I think we’re all in the spirit of making sure that happens.” […]
Digital technologies facilitate medical decision-making
By Siemens–Decision-making has one clear goal in medicine — the good of the patient. The digitalization of the healthcare environment has made the good of the patient increasingly dependent on the intelligent use of data. The challenge is integrating a wide variety of data from clinical, radiological, laboratory, pathological and observational sources in a way […]
Digital Health Tsunami
Steve Krupa, CEO, Psilos Group With the advent of digital health, there is realistic hope for substantial improvement. And along the way there will be huge market implications. Goldman Sachs forecasts a near-term digital health market exceeding $32 billion annually. Of this, 45 percent will come from remote patient monitoring (mostly for chronic disease management), […]
Leveraging analytics to improve connected medication management process efficiencies
By Odelia Genevieve– HIMSS Market Intelligence conducted two benchmarking studies at the end of 2019 and a BD-sponsored follow-up study at the end of 2020 to examine how connected drug management is changing overall drug management. The results of the 2020 survey *, titled Transforming Medication Management: Insights on Connected Medication Management, made it clear […]
Healthcare Cloud Computing Market Expected to Grow to $64.7 Billion by 2025
By MARKET and MARKETS-The market for healthcare cloud computing is expected to grow from USD 28.1 billion in 2020 to USD 64.7 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 18.1% during the forecast period. Growth in the healthcare cloud computing market can be attributed to factors such as technological upgradation in healthcare industry, increasing focus […]
Ransomware Attack Unleashed in the Cloud Affects Multiple Healthcare Provider Clients
By Steve Alder–CaptureRx, a San Antonio, TX-based provider of 340B administrative services to healthcare providers, has suffered a ransomware attack in which files containing the protected health information of customers’ patients were stolen. The security breach was detected on February 19, 2021, with the investigation confirming unauthorized individuals had accessed and acquired files containing sensitive […]
SIX WAYS CLOUD COMPUTING IS IMPROVING HEALTHCARE
By Mike Thomas –At Chicago’s sprawling Rush University Medical Center, technology is as ubiquitous as the doctors, nurses and patients who fill the corridors. Amid the army of life-saving machines is an invisible force vital to the hospital’s operations: cloud computing. It’s used to run critical applications, cull, analyze and extract important information from piles of unstructured data, […]
