The pressures that go along with leading cyber in a healthcare institution are daunting; some of which include the need to be perfect all the time, the fact that the industry is under almost…
The recent rash of ransomware-induced outages has truly created a “not if, but when” dynamic for health systems. And with that feeling must come a commitment on the part of all leaders to ensure thei…
In a perfect world, the only thing imaging professionals would have to consider is how to improve clinician workflow and thus, satisfaction, along with patient safety. Of course, the world i…
Application rationalization is one of those thorny projects — absolutely necessary and extremely challenging. It’s absolutely necessary because millions of dollars are potentially being wasted on app…
“Technology is not the problem. There is so much amazing technology out there that can solve so many problems.”
And yet, clinicians remain increasingly frustrated. It’s precisely why Eve Cunningham, …
The community hospital market is struggling with razor-thin margins, according to John Gaede, CIO, at San Juan Regional Medical Center; the result of increasing payroll and technology cos…
AI has the potential to address dozens of efficiency challenges that health systems must solve in order to flourish in today’s world of staffing shortages and increased burnout. As such, there is no …
For the better part of a decade – from 2010 to 2020 – CIOs were busy implementing and optimizing their EMRs. And since 2020, it’s been all about cost cutting via application rationalization,…
Unless they work for technology companies, CIOs aren’t technology executives, according to Maria Sexton, CIO at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada. Rather, they are business ex…
There are a lot of things that seem to come full circle. Change management, according to Donna Roach, is one of them. She believes the most effective way to successfully drive change is through a fee…
Whereas AI has some excessive enthusiasm around it (especially in the clinical realm), automation is a no-brainer. Well, not exactly. That’s because — though automation may work magic when done on th…
On most days in cyber, it can seem like there are a million things to do. For Jim Kuiphof and his team, that was probably the case in 2022 when Spectrum Health and Beaumont Health merged to …
It’s the key question all CISOs have to ask themselves – especially those at small- to mid-sized organizations whose cyber teams run in the single digits as opposed to hundreds: how do I ope…
With so many new technology solutions hitting the market, it’s becoming increasingly common for health systems to add accelerator or incubator programs to separate the wheat from the chaff. Because a…
You might think a former drill sergeant turned CISO would lead with a ‘my way or the highway approach,’ but for Terry Grogan, VP of IT Assurance & CISO at Tower Health, that couldn’t be furt…
Recent industry-shaking events have made it clear that serious points of third-party risk lurk throughout healthcare. They’ve also revealed that operational risk and IT security risk are deeply inter…
Enterprise imaging is similar in scope to the EHR, and it allows clinical users to properly identify, acquire, store, manage and visualize imaging studies from across their enterprise, regardless of …
The IT stack of the past cannot service the health system of the future. That’s one of the main sentiments that runs through the following thoughts offered by Franciscan Missionaries of Our …
It’s the dirty little secret among healthcare cyber professionals — they don’t know where all their ePHI is, causing an ePHI cyber crisis. And while those professionals are not to blame (healthcare w…
The current healthcare system is fraught with challenges. Between workforce shortages, regulatory changes, and evolving consumer needs, the ecosystem is “just not sustainable the way it is today,” sa…
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