Cloud Computing

More than half of hospitals say they've had one or more data breaches caused by third-party vendors in the past two years, with an average cost of $2.9 million per incident – but too many are still failing to do adequate risk assessments.

The vendor’s event management technology is designed for monitoring threats to healthcare organizations and comes with built-in connectors for major healthcare applications such as Epic and Cerner.

Even as the number of organizations ready to adopt a cloud-based approach is rising, nearly a fifth of healthcare orgs surveyed said they'd consider moving their data from the cloud back on premises.

The health system will use Azure as its preferred platform and will deploy emerging technologies from Microsoft at an affiliated hospital facility in Seattle, near the technology giant’s Redmond headquarters.

There's continued resistance from many pharmaceutical industry executives, who think it's never possible to safely store sensitive data in the cloud.

For all the potential benefits of SaaS-based analytics and AI apps, privacy concerns remain, slowing data sharing and suggesting the need for new approaches to cloud security.

Optima's cloud-based EHR helps outpatient therapists build patient care plans, track treatment goals and document care, with features including a clinical content library and customizable templates.

The FluCARE app will undergo a one-year trial phase at up to 30 nursing homes in Sydney Local Health District, during which nursing home staff will record data about suspected cases of influenza-like illness and flu among their residents.

Marc Fiume, CEO of DNAStack, discusses partnering with Google to unlock massive potential in terms of generating discoveries and medical breakthroughs.

While most orgs surveyed said they have network access solutions to monitor devices connected to the network, fewer than half of small providers use network segmentation to control the spread of infections.