Network Infrastructure

Tom Hallisey, digital health strategy lead for the Healthcare Association of New York State, offers thoughts on recent ONC regs on model transparency – and some tips for deploying ambient AI intelligently.  

Following its recent HIMSS Digital Health Indicator assessment – and ranking second globally in 2022 – Chang Gung Memorial Hospital is moving to new heights of digital maturity with confidence, says superintendent Dr Chien-Tzung Chen.  

"We've got to be able to do something to incent those smaller community hospitals," says Wes Wright, chief healthcare officer of Ordr, because they cannot afford to protect the large electronic attack surfaces created with meaningful use requirements.

The first Taiwanese recipient of the HIMSS Davies Award, China Medical University Hospital, is looking to achieve both HIMSS Stage 7 INFRAM and Stage 6 AMAM this year, says Professor Oscar Lee, vice superintendent.  

Local health officials have pointed out the poor health IT infrastructure that hinders the broad uptake of EMR.

Macquarie Capital will provide $300 million to improve the energy resiliency of safety net healthcare providers as part of a White House-led initiative, said John Pickhaver, the firm's head of infrastructure and energy capital for the Americas.

The New York health system also successfully migrated, consolidated and shut down data centers and servers, achieving monetary savings and remediating security risks.

Health systems can get ahead of cyber subterfuge by deploying mock threat actors to break into information systems, move around and see what they can do, says Gina Bertolini, partner at K&L Gates.

A new report points out India's enormous potential to become a global medical device powerhouse.

It is the first Taiwanese hospital to be validated for both Stage 7 INFRAM and Stage 6 AMAM.