Cloud Computing

The private-sector collaborative includes EHR vendors (Epic, athenahealth), Big Tech (AWS, Microsoft), health systems (Mayo, Intermountain) and many others, all working to speed development of "secure, ethical, innovative, open source" tools to combat the crisis.

Backed by an initial investment of $20 million, the project is open to accredited research institutions and private entities using AWS to support development of point-of-care diagnostics.

The social-distancing effort also applies to educational institutions, municipalities and nonprofit organizations.

"Zero trust flips the security model: Instead of 'trust but verify,' organizations 'always verify but never trust,'" one security expert explains.

The goal is to empower healthcare and life sciences organizations of all types and sizes to deliver more personalized and collaborative experiences at scale.

The Shared Responsibility Matrix aims to streamline the assurance process for privacy and security, helping assign responsibilities and reduce misunderstandings when healthcare organizations work with cloud service providers.

Specialized answers about medication information were created specifically for the ambient voice-enabled service.

“We no longer can rely on traditional security controls like vulnerability scans and periodic penetration tests to assure our stakeholders that our systems are keeping up with the rate and pace with which attacks occur,” says Taylor Lehmann.

Three healthcare IT infrastructure experts offer best practices for ensuring the foundational technologies are running optimally.

The multi-specialty group saved two hours of data entry time per patient per day by integrating its Salesforce CRM with its Medstreaming EHR using Bridge Connector integration technology.