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A Concerning Gap in Cybersecurity for Medical Technology

Health Populi

Notwithstanding mass adoption of antivirus protection and firewalls among healthcare providers, there remains a security gap for biomedical technologies, according to a report from Zingbox. based healthcare IT leaders for the survey in October 2018. healthcare secure from cyber-attacks.

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Can Artificial Intelligence Replicate The Human Touch in Healthcare Provision?

HIT Consultant

While most of the general chatter around the technology can, most charitably, be dismissed as ‘uninformed’, there are already some encouraging signs of its potential to change the world of public healthcare provision, substantially for the better. The growing use of AI in healthcare also raises important ethical considerations.

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Why Healthcare Innovation Needs Human-Centered Principles

HIT Consultant

COVID-19 has no doubt been catastrophic, but let it also be the wake-up call we need to improve experiences for both patients and healthcare providers alike. So far, healthcare organizations and facilities have had to work quickly to deliver care on a functional level. Healthcare innovation must serve inclusion.

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Salesforce Launches AI-Powered Life Sciences Cloud for Pharma and MedTech

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Salesforce announced the general availability of Life Sciences Cloud , a platform for pharmaceutical ( pharma ) and medical technology ( medtech ) organizations to help personalize patient and healthcare professional (HCP) engagement and streamline clinical operations with data, automation, and trusted AI.

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Digitalization in healthcare empowers patients

Healthcare It News

In today’s digitalized healthcare environment, keeping the best outcomes for patients at the center of all activity increasingly depends on the smart use of medical data. Challenges for healthcare professionals along the patient pathway. Roles in healthcare are changing.

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The Digital Home: A Platform for Health, via Deloitte and the COVID-19 “Stress Test”

Health Populi

Among the least likely barriers were unqualified clinicians (compared with a “live” in-person doctor), the doctor’s inability to share health information with the patient, difficulty in booking an appointment, distractions from other online activities, and privacy issues.

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Newsletter, January 2023

Patient Safety Movement

DOCTOR DELIVERS LETHAL EPIDURAL AT BROOKLYN HOSPITAL An article last week in The New York Times told the story of an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn public hospital, with a history of making life-threatening errors in administering epidurals, who made a fatal mistake in July 2020. Adverse drug events accounted for 39.0%