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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Partnering with senior leadership at the hospital, we were able to roll out systems that kept us on the cutting edge of technology." This made constant communication and collaboration from our leadership team down to each work team and analyst vital." "There are miles between training and mastery.

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Nurses: The Force for Change

Mobile Health Matters

Additionally, hospital floors are a collaborative environment and mentors often not only train and inspire new colleagues, but also serve as advocates for their peers and participate in focus groups to initiate evidence-based nursing practice in their patient units.

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Measures You Should be Implementing in Your Organization to Strengthen Your Cybersecurity and Protect Your Patient Data

Healthcare IT Today

Mark Dill, Chief Information Security Officer at MedAllies Having good policies and procedures in place is important – and having a yearly role-based training plan is even better. Employee training, data backup, and access control are prioritized, along with network segmentation and vendor risk management.

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Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

Conduct cybersecurity training for employees. One of hospital IT’s traditional concerns – hospital data stored in a vendor’s data center – can be a source of relief in a ransomware attack. Doing so raises awareness about phishing scams and other common attack vectors.

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Will 2024 see a reboot of Google Glass-style headsets in Healthcare?

Lloyd Price

Growing interest in AR/VR in healthcare: Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have gained traction in various medical fields like surgery, training, and rehabilitation. Medical training: Trainees could use Glass to visualize procedures and anatomy in 3D,enhancing their learning experience.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

One challenge is extensive nomenclature differences across physician practices, hospitals, and pharmacies. Operational waste found in inefficient and frustrating processes and workflow is a huge contributing factor to staff burnout, compelling trained workers and professionals to leave their jobs in droves.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

Many hospitals, health systems, and health plans still don’t have employees trained and don’t have the proper policies, procedures, and tech tools in place to be compliant, even with the two years of runway that was provided by legislators. The No Surprises Act was signed into law in 2020 and took effect last year.