As new cyberattack techniques emerge and evolve, so too must the strategies for protecting artificial intelligence systems in the healthcare setting. And AI-enabled cybersecurity efforts at hospitals and health systems need to keep pace. CIOs, CISOs, and other IT and security leaders must learn to bridge the gap between AI security and cyber defense, which … Read more
In a time of inflation, talent shortages, supply chain challenges and shrinking capital, healthcare decision-makers must be more adept than ever at stretching dollars. And those headwinds are spurring some health system leaders to blaze new trails with emergency medical service providers in the world of artificial intelligence. “AI and predictive modeling are driving everything … Read more
Many affected health systems say they’re back up and running, days after a global IT outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update that took millions of Microsoft systems offline on July 19. The outage affected industries around the world – not least healthcare, where it caused some providers to revert to pen and paper after … Read more
Not too long ago, AdventHealth had a high demand in its Central and East Florida divisions for advanced MRI services. The health system’s centralized MRI services at its Orlando campus, though effective, presented areas where AdventHealth could deliver a more consumer-centric experience. THE PROBLEM Expanding advanced MRI services to the community hospitals presented its own … Read more
Healthcare leaders have begun to digest the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s recently proposed HTI-2 interoperability rule, and many have offered their reaction to its various components. While most see the proposed rule as a conduit for improving health information exchange between providers, public health agencies and payers through standards-based APIs, others … Read more
By now, everyone in healthcare is well aware of the problem of clinician burnout – and its consequences, which aggravate the staffing shortage crisis. Health IT leaders at hospitals and health systems already have begun experimenting with artificial intelligence – experiencing a great boom in healthcare – to try to reduce the clinician burnout problem. … Read more