News
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Ransomware Attacks in Healthcare Are Increasing, Creating Longer Recovery
by HealthLeaders Media, October 10, 2024
Ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations have hit a four-year high since 2021, with two-thirds of companies saying they were impacted in the past year, according to a survey by security solutions firm Sophos.
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Why Your AI Should Be Talking to Patients You Don’t See
by HealthLeaders Media, October 9, 2024
WellSpan Health launched an AI platform roughly one month ago that calls selected at-risk patients to schedule colorectal cancer screenings. The AI agent, called Ana and developed by digital health startup Hippocratic AI, asks patients if they would agree to take the test and, if they agree, arranges to mail a testing kit to their homes.
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Bad Medicine: Healthcare Struggles With Poor Technology
by HealthLeaders Media, October 8, 2024
The study, the third in Black Book’s “What’s Hot and What’s Not in Healthcare IT Investments” series, finds that bad IT investments have jumped significantly since 2017, when those costs were estimated at $1.7 billion, and budget limitations are keeping healthcare leaders from correcting those problems.
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How to Improve Antibiotics Stewardship for Pediatric Patients
by HealthLeaders Media, October 7, 2024
Antibiotic stewardship has several benefits, including lowering cost of care, reducing medication side effects, and addressing antimicrobial resistance. For pediatric patients, most antibiotics are prescribed in the outpatient setting.
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PSQH: The Podcast Episode 114 – Reducing Medication Errors with Technology
by PSQH, October 4, 2024
On episode 114 of PSQH: The Podcast, Lani Bertrand, Senior Director, Clinical Marketing & Thought Leadership at Omnicell, talks about how technology can help reduce medication errors.
Events
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Industry Sunday 12/08/2024IHI Forum
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Industry Tuesday 12/17/20242024 Leapfrog Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner
Analysis
- Virtual Triage: A New Way of Identifying Patients in Need of Emergency Care
- Transforming Precision Surgery: The Vital Role of Data-Driven Surgical Navigation Systems
- The Effectiveness and Cost-Savings of Addressing SDoH
- Can NPs and PAs Replace Physicians?
- Reducing Workplace Violence for Nurses
- Mobile: Healthcare’s New Access-to-Care Differentiator
- Leveraging Call Centers for Better Patient Care
- Telling a Better Care Story with Health Risk Assessments
- ABQAURP News August 2024
- MetroHealth Achieves Interoperability Between Visitor Management and EMR Platforms for Secure, Real-Time Patient Visitor Monitoring
Most Read Articles
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