Just how bad is the security landscape in healthcare? In 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights reported that 358 breaches of 500 or more records impacted more than 5 million individuals, according to HIMSS Analytics. What’s more, a 2018 Ponemon report focusing on the financial impact of breaches notes…

Recently, I was talking to a peer at TigerConnect about one of the company’s largest customers. Although TigerConnect (previously TigerText) was created to facilitate HIPAA-compliant sharing of patient information, it turned out that this customer’s most enthusiastic adopter of the tool is its food services department, which sends as many as 30,000 messages each month…

I’m currently working with a healthcare organization that is attempting to design the “hospital of the future.” It’s no surprise that this organization is adopting IT solutions to optimize patient care, but the hospital is spending just as much time and energy on improving the clinician experience. Why? For one, the hospital is trying to…

When patients are hospitalized, doctors track their blood pressure, heart rate, blood oxygen level and half a dozen other metrics. Some hospitals do a better job than others of using this data to arrive at real-time medical insights, but at least the information is available. When patients leave the hospital, however, their doctors often receive…

Organizations around the world find themselves inundated with security data that is incredibly challenging to digest and process. Servers, endpoint devices, network components, firewalls, cloud services and security appliances all generate massive amounts of information that would be impossible for security analysts to comb through on a daily basis. But this data still has value,…

Healthcare is plagued by too much waiting around. Visit any doctor’s office or hospital emergency room, and you’ll almost certainly find several patients frustrated with the long wait time until they are seen. While there’s no silver bullet to completely eradicate the waiting game from patient care, we’re finding that the increasing ubiquity of mobile…