Network Infrastructure

The hospital group has recently demonstrated EMR and IT infrastructure maturity above the regional and global averages.

Jeremy Dähn, Johanniter GmbH's chief digital officer, says overcoming obstacles to digital transformation, including the difference in technology levels among its hospitals, will enable Germany to build a better healthcare system.

Since its botched Microsoft security update this past week, most healthcare organizations seem to be resuming normal operations. But one of the largest IT snafus ever shows that the industry must better prepare for third-party technology disruptions.

CrowdSrike says the BSOD outage for Microsoft Windows was caused by a botched security update. It has resulted in surgical cancellations, ambulance diversions and other patient care disruptions at doctors' offices, ERs and hospitals around the globe.

Fay Stevenson, ICT director at Barts Health NHS Trust, shares learnings and best practices from the trust's INFRAM journey, including the need to understand existing technology before deciding how to replace or build onto it.

Also: HIMSS Privacy and Security leader campaigns for ISC2 Board.

In 2023, 35% of third-party breaches affected healthcare organizations with application security presenting the broadest attack surface, according to a new cybersecurity analysis of the largest healthcare companies.

Also, North Queensland GPs have been using AI to increase registrations to MyMedicare.

The Margo initiative is developing an open standard to scale data exchange across multi-vendor environments and help organizations automate interoperability with edge applications, devices and software.

"Healthcare organizations cannot rely on legacy technologies to detect and respond to today’s attacks," says Ricardo Villadiego, CEO of cybersecurity firm Lumu.