Network Infrastructure

Hackers attacked the computers systems of Rainbow Children’s Clinic and deleted some patient records housing sensitive data. 

The biggest problem? Outdated IT and tight budgets make it hard to fend off growing throngs of hackers.

IBM's tech-savvy chief has been instrumental in the company's supercomputing work with Watson, the surprising partnership with Apple to create health apps, and she has boldly proclaimed that cognitive computing is the future of healthcare. 

Managing user privileges is among the most basic practices in any security strategy. Establishing a process also paves the way for other tactics, like provisioning and bridging the gap between IT and HR, that can keep internal and external threats at bay. Experts divulge insights and best practices. 

The academic medical center also intends to open eight precision medicine centers to advance technologies and measurement tools to improve patient care.

Hospitals still not using staffing software are struggling with nurse scheduling which hampers employee morale and, in turn, detracts from patient satisfaction. A new survey suggested that predictive analytics tools can help with both problems simultaneously.

The Seattle-based company, which aims to re-engineer how consumers manage their care’ also brought on a vice president of product management to advance its platform.

Rate of attacks has steadily increased since 2015 across all industries; healthcare holds third place with 3.5 percent of organizations experiencing an attack.

Northwell Health replaced its aging email tracker with a system that helps manage compliance, contract review and budget approvals. And it built the new system with existing resources. 

The University of Mississippi Medical Center is harnessing artificial intelligence to identify people with chronic disease risk factors who will also respond well to using remote monitoring technologies. The task is tricky, to be certain.