Interoperability

Tech giants are seemingly launching an AI platform every other day, but does the UK health system have the capabilities necessary to help these advancements live up to the hype, with a large chunk of its organisations still running on paper or using fax machines and pagers? A recent HIMSS UK Executive Leadership Summit (ELS) saw patients, entrepreneurs, clinicians, researchers and scientists discuss during a panel debate whether the NHS is ready for an AI-enabled future.

Symantec's technology can give hospitals advanced automated detection of targeted attacks while Fortinet's new product helps bridge the gap between network operations and security operations centers.

Middletown Medical left a radiology interface open to the public, exposing patient data in the process.

The initiative, known as the Digital Health Ecosystem Wales network, will initially run for a period of two years.

The hackers behind the attack on Allscripts have hit 10 organizations in the last few months, levering open RDP connections to proliferate inside a network.

Healthcare is the only industry where inside threats outnumber outside threat actors, according to Verizon’s most recent breach report.

The Choice Program was designed to shorten wait times and ease travel burdens for veterans. But Congress failed to pass the reform package last month.

The health system is building out the portfolio of mission-critical apps and services it can manage for hospitals moving those into the cloud.

The teams, both of which joined Allscripts via acquisition, will work to innovate acute and post-acute coordination and offer greater visibility across the care continuum.

Specifically, the challenge is looking for new ways data from wearables can be exchanged between patients and physicians to help manage chronic conditions.