Recent challenges have pushed healthcare organizations to embrace guiding principles that have proved their value in new ways. The need to maintain agility in operations and technology; the importance of collaboration within and between organizations; and the role of solutions that increase visibility and ease day-to-day workloads all have become essential to healthcare providers and IT…
Healthcare mergers and acquisitions (M&As) often require complex decision-making as IT leaders determine whether to unify an IT approach — and, if not, which standards and technologies to keep or replace. However, IT departments do not act alone in these situations. The CIO will often have the final say in how integration is handled, but…
About 57 million Americans depend on rural hospitals for their healthcare, according to the American Hospital Association. Because of low population density in rural areas, hospitals there often have low patient volumes that can lead to high relative operating costs. This makes investment in cybersecurity more challenging. Already vulnerable due to precarious financial situations and…
CDW has completed its $2.5 billion acquisition of Sirius Computer Solutions, an integrator of technology-based solutions such as IT strategy, security, digital transformation, cloud and managed services. The acquisition will expand and scale CDW’s services and solutions capabilities and further enhance its ability to solve customers’ increasingly interconnected and complex technology challenges, according to the company. “The…
Healthcare organizations aren’t immune to pandemic pressures. Just like their enterprise counterparts, hospitals, clinics and specialists faced the need for sudden adaptation to stay in operation — and cloud provided the shortest path to success. With hybrid and remote healthcare now here to stay, organizations face a new challenge: Ensuring that hastily built cloud environments…
In the study of anatomy, students need all the time and help they can get to learn about the complexities of the human body. The new Anatomy Resource Center (ARC) at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine in Pasadena, Calif., is now using new technologies, specimens and teaching methods to improve the…
Hospital staff, traveling nurses, patients and visitors in rural areas must be able to connect seamlessly and securely to a hospital’s Wi-Fi network — a need that recently led Adventist Health and Cisco to roll out the Wireless Broadband Alliance OpenRoaming service. It allows Wi-Fi access without requiring login credentials. After a successful initial deployment at…
Communication allows information to be shared between people. This is especially important in healthcare where that information could mean the difference between life and death. Technology such as telephones and public address systems were used to communicate vital information to clinicians before the advent of pagers in the 1950s made immediate communication possible. Hospitals use…
Clinical communication and collaboration tools enable the efficient flow of information in a healthcare setting. HIPAA-compliant phone and text communication is a critical component, but CC&C tools have evolved to automate other time-sensitive types of information sharing, including nurse call alarms, alerts from remote monitoring devices and notifications from electronic health records. “Organizations are leaning…
