Three Cybersecurity Considerations for Healthcare in 2020
At the end of the year, we all certainly want to look ahead, hopefully, to what we hope will be a better one. 2019 has certainly been a rough one in terms of cybersecurity in healthcare.
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DYI PMO Assessment Tool
I am sharing what I believe to be an easy method for a new or seasoned project manager to assess and establish a project management office (PMO) function for their organization.
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Data Center Before and After Shots from Mt San Rafael Hospital
Michael shared these pictures along with the news that his hospital had achieved HIMSS Analytics Stage 6, Meaningful Use Stage 3, and received the 2019 Most Wired Hospital award that is now being given by CHIME.
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Q3 2019 Healthcare Data Breaches
In Q3 2019, major health data breaches continued at a pace of over one per day. Of the 131 health data breaches in the quarter, hacking and unauthorized access/disclosure attributed to 66% of the total incidents.
Learn moreIt’s No Coincidence That Halloween Falls in National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM)
I don’t imagine I’m the first to figure that out, but I think it’s a mistake. It’s easy to jump to scary stuff and tricks or treats and draw clever or cute analogies to cybersecurity and Halloween.
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5 Things You Can Do to Prevent Ransomware Attacks
It seems like every week, we hear about another healthcare organization being hacked via ransomware. With these ransomware attacks so commonplace now, it appears that the most basic level of prevention is getting overlooked
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Managing the Journey to Digital Transformation in Healthcare
Digital transformation initiatives in healthcare have historically focused on the conversion of analog processes to electronic processes.
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4 Things Startups Should Know about Rural American Healthcare Innovation
Rural areas are historically perceived as a harder market for healthcare startups: They have tighter margins, and recently many safety net and rural hospitals have closed. Yet rural areas are most in need of companies that can establish a lasting presence.
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Am I any good? Banishing self-doubt with the Digital Academy
I remember keenly entering a large auditorium on day one of my first Digital Academy residential. We sat down and were warmly welcomed. An online polling app was used and we all duly whipped out our phones and said, in one word, how we were feeling. In the word cloud on the screen at… read more
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Shifts in Healthcare IT: How CIOs Can Initiate Transformation
Today’s low unemployment rate means top performers have an abundance of opportunities. That challenge, coupled with a shortage of people trained in niche areas, makes its hard to find talent for transformational activities. Fortunately for us at DaVita Medical Group (which is now part of OptumCare®), healthcare and IT are attractive fields for talent. Still, like other… read more
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Biomedical Device Security: The Risk is More than Security
In this podcast, David Finn shares why technical vulnerabilities and risk to medical devices are so important and the risks we aim to address from the core business of healthcare to security for the sake of security.
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3 Keys to Effective Use of IT in Healthcare
Symptoms alert us to problems within our bodies that may cause us great distress. To improve our condition, we often rush to relieve our ailment by focusing on treating the symptoms rather than diagnosing the underlying problem. The same is true with many of the issues we face within the healthcare industry.
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