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August 2017, as barometers fell and the flood waters rose around Houston, Texas, healthcare administrators had plenty to think about. First and foremost was patient safety in an impending Category 4 hurricane. Then, they confronted operational challenges--how to maintain staffing needs and how to support stranded, overwhelmed, and exhausted medical teams. Availability of supplies in a just-in-time environment was compounded by the increasing needs of a population suffering injuries from the storm.

What they should not h...

LabCorp, Cass Regional Medical Center, East Ohio Regional Hospital, and Ohio Valley Medical Center. Hancock Health. Blue Springs Family Care. Allscripts. All were victims of ransomware attacks in 2018. Outside of the US, the Singapore Ministry of Health experienced a data breach of 1.5 million health records, including the Prime Minister's ePHI. According to the 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), ransomware att...

Capital expenditures (CapEx) are the star of the show when hospitals open gleaming new centers focused on heart disease, cancer, or children's health. Glossy marketing boasts state of the art facilities and top talent revolving around person-centered care. But seldom do IT expenditures that fall into the CapEx bucket prompt anything more than the expectation of being reliable. When IT monies are used as capital expenses, they are used for hardware, purchased software applications and in-house infrastructure. They are bets hedged on projected demand and technical developments yet to ...

Today's healthcare management revolves around a consumer-centric, service model. Patients are customers, and they expect the same ease of access, choices, and informed decision making they exercise in other industries to be available in their healthcare.

Higher Out of Pocket Fees Drive Decisions

A TransUnion Healthcare analysis revealed that for commercially insured patients, th...

The field of healthcare information technology is not such a big deal. After all, we've managed so far, haven't we? So what, if there's a small leak here and there, or the access to medical records pipelines get clogged every once in a while, and there's an overflow from time to time, and Well, we can live with that, can't we?

I always smile to myself, when I remember that plumber's ad:

"We repair what your husband fixed".

I enjoy a bit of DIY (do-it-yourself) from time to time - but I do know, that when a job is too big to handle, or too complex, you'v...