Cybersecurity ’s Role in the Office of the Chief Medical Officer
The following is a guest article by William Thorn, CISSP, CDPSE, Senior Strategist and Architect at Trellix
Do cyber threats feel like an inevitable workplace hazard? Attacks may seem rare when trying to anticipate them from afar. Once the threat materializes, it is common in healthcare settings for hospitals to choose a reactive approach. To choose not to invest in cyber defense education, tools, or any other preventative measure until it is too late.
But picture a similar strategy in a clinical setting — imagine if we didn’t approach health safety in layers of defense. Examination rooms wouldn’t be regularly saniti...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Security and Privacy Chief Medical Officer CISO CMIO CMO Cyber Attacks Cybersecurity Healthcare CISO Healthcare Cybersecurity Healthcare Secur Source Type: blogs
Clinicians and management at odds in health care
In a survey conducted by a University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing team led by Linda Aiken, PhD, RN, of 21,050 physicians and nurses at 60 hospitals, it was found that more than 40 percent of clinicians were not confident that hospital management would act to resolve problems that clinicians identify in patient care. Close
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Clinicians and management at odds in health care originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 31, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Michele Luckenbaugh Tags: Conditions Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs
The Cure to Healthcare Industry Issues – Facial Recognition
The following is a guest article by Anton Nazarkin, Global Development Director at VisionLabs.
Healthcare institutions seek one key thing: delivering the greatest patient outcomes possible. Often technology is relied upon to reduce strain on resources and deliver better patient outcomes. Yet one emerging technology is offering new exciting opportunities to do this: facial recognition.
The scope of facial recognition’s impact on the healthcare industry is vast, spanning insurance fraud and improved admin systems, all the way to reducing drug crime. Facial recognition’s impact should be examined in full in order...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 16, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Security and Privacy Anton Nazarkin Drug Diversion Drug Monitoring Facial Recognition Healthcare Facial Recognition Healthcare Fraud Healthcare Fr Source Type: blogs
The Future of Radiology And Artificial Intelligence
What if an algorithm could tell you whether you have cancer based on your CT scan or mammography exam? While I am confident that radiologists’ creative work will be necessary in the future to solve complex issues and supervise diagnostic processes, A.I. will definitely become part of their daily routine in diagnosing simpler cases and taking over repetitive tasks. So rather than getting threatened by it, we should familiarise ourselves with how it could help change the course of radiology for the better.
Radiologists who use A.I. will replace those who don’t
There is a lot of hype and plenty of fear around ar...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 22, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Future of Medicine AI artificial intelligence cancer Health Healthcare ibm watson Innovation MRI Radiology technology gc4 medical imaging CT scanning Source Type: blogs
AR Headset Helps Surgeons Place Implants: Interview with Louie Vogt of Enovis Surgical
Enovis, a medtech company based in Delaware formerly known as DJO, recently announced the launch of ARVIS (Augmented Reality Visualization and Information System), an augmented reality technology that is designed to assist surgeons during implant placement in the hip and knee. The hands-free technology consists of an eyepiece that is mounted on a surgical helmet that provides the surgeon with real-time information about the position of an implant with respect to patient anatomy.
It can be difficult for a surgeon to accurately track patient anatomy obscured by a variety of obstacles, such as sterile drapes. The aim behin...
Source: Medgadget - August 18, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Orthopedic Surgery augmented reality Enovis Source Type: blogs
After COVID, now my soul can rest a little easier
I had been searching for a year. Because of the pandemic, despite the pandemic and to heal from the pandemic. Finally in May this year, I was gifted what seemed to have become an impossible task. I messaged the hospital manager: “The trees have arrived. I’ll come by later in the week to chat aboutRead more …Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 11, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/basil-stathoulis" rel="tag" > Dr. Basil Stathoulis < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
On Med Mal Reform, Democrats Are More Libertarian than Republicans
Michael F. CannonIn a recentpost, I announced the release of and provided excerpts from Cato’s latest health policy book,Medical Malpractice Litigation: How It Works, Why Tort Reform Hasn ’t Helped, by Bernard S. Black,David A. Hyman, Myungho S. Paik, William M. Sage, andCharles Silver (foreword by former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle).Medical Malpractice Litigationcompiles original research from states that capped damages in “med mal” cases to show that such reforms do not have the effects that physicians and other supporters claim. If anything, damage caps benefit physicians and insurance companies at th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 3, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Michael F. Cannon Source Type: blogs
As One Licensed NC Physician To Another Unlicensed One (Dr. Mary Johnson to Dr. Mandy Cohen/NC DHHS Secretary): PROTECT MEDICAL WHISTLEBLOWERS NOW!
Related to mylast post - which went up (after much soul-searching and trepidation) on 2/28/20201 one of the biggest complaints (coming largely from folks reading on mobile phones) was that the post was " so long " . They wanted something more " concise " . The post relates my own horrific pandemic experience with Central Carolina Hospital/ApolloMD and Duke Lifepoint in Sanford, North Carolina. It ' s my third dance as a medical whistle-blower in 23 years. And much like the first two cases (Asheboro in 1998, and ETSU/Ballad Health in 2017), it ' s really NOT " soundbite " material (it would ...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - March 4, 2021 Category: American Health Tags: ApolloMD Central Carolina Hospital CMS Dr. Seuss Duke Lifepoint HIPAA Mandy Cohen Medicaid Medical Whistleblower NCDHHS Pandemic Pediatric Hospitalist Source Type: blogs
A North Carolina Pediatric Hospitalist Tells Her Pandemic Story to Senator Richard Burr: Thirteen Months (And Counting) In Medical Whistle-blower Hell - Courtesy Of Private Equity/For-Profit Healthcare And Cruelly-Indifferent/Morally-Bankrupt State & Federal Oversight
Author ' s Note: I cannot " sound-bite " the last year - and perhaps it ' s time to write the book. Scroll about half-way down to read the letter to Senator Burr. The bottom line is that for thethird time in 23 years, as a Pediatrician staffing a community hospital, I was fired " with-out cause " immediately after intervening in a neonatal ( " bad baby " ) case, rescuing the situation/ " saving " the baby, and reporting it INTERNALLY to Peer Review. NO discussion. NO recourse. NO review. A total cover-up. And EVERY SINGLE TIME I ' ve asked the state/Federal government to enfor...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - February 28, 2021 Category: American Health Tags: ACA Apollo Global Management ApolloMD Ballad Heath Central Carolina Hospital CMS Duke Lifepoint ETSU Medicaid Medical Whistleblower NCDHHS Pandemic Quality Assruance Randolph Health Richard Burr Trump Source Type: blogs
Why Health Systems Employ Doctors: Money and Control
By KEN TERRY
(This is the third in a series of excerpts from Terry’s new book, Physician-Led Healthcare Reform: a New Approach to Medicare for All, published by the American Association for Physician Leadership.)
The American Medical Association (AMA) last year announced that, for the first time, more physicians were employed than were independent. While many of these doctors were employed by private practices, the AMA said, about 35% of them worked directly for a hospital or for a hospital-owned practice.25
This estimate was lower than that of other surveys. According to research conducted by the Physicians Adv...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 31, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy health reform Ken Terry Medicare For All Source Type: blogs
Will Medical Workers Deal With PTSD After COVID-19?
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is commonly linked with war veterans. This mental health condition however can be triggered by suffering or witnessing any terrifying event like accidents, natural disasters, violent experience – or a disastrous pandemic. It comes as no surprise that medical health professionals and other people in the frontline of the fight against coronavirus are expected to have a surge in trauma-related illnesses, particularly PTSD. Beside protecting and helping personnel physically as well as mentally, there are also digital health solutions that can come to the rescue.
A Canadian resea...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 28, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Telemedicine & Smartphones Virtual Reality digital health ptsd stress stress management medical professionals digital healthcare coronavirus covid covid19 Source Type: blogs
A Pandemic of Silence: Hospital Managers Intimidate and Punish Coronavirus Whistle-Blowers
(Source: Health Care Renewal)
Source: Health Care Renewal - April 10, 2020 Category: Health Management Tags: ACP AMA Blackstone Group coronavirus generic managers intimidation managerialism Mount Sinai Hospital Northwestern University NYU Langone Medical Center private equity whistle-blowers Source Type: blogs
How To Cope Under Pressure, According To Psychology
In this study, the stressor was physical – volunteers had to submerge their feet into cold water – but in theory, the same effect could hold for other forms of stress.) In some trials, participants actually had their partner in the same room. These people reported less pain than those who just imagined that their partner was there, but the blood pressure data for the two groups were statistically equivalent. “The results suggest that accessing the mental representation of a romantic partner and a partner’s presence each buffer against exaggerated acute stress responses to a similar degree,” the researcher...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Emotion Feature Positive psychology The self Source Type: blogs
China Is Building The Ultimate Technological Health Paradise. Or Is It?
How could a country keep around 1.4 billion
people healthy when the system struggles with corruption, lack of resources and
an aging population? China, the emerging giant with a strong central leadership
fostering technology and innovation, places its bets on artificial
intelligence, telemedicine, cloud-based hospitals, and WeChat. While that could sound like
an ultimate technological paradise, the question is, what are they going to do
with the vast amount of data or to what interests are they going to leverage
their state of the art A.I. systems? Generally, how will we speak about digital
health in China: a healthcare dy...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 19, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Bioethics Future of Medicine Medical Professionals Patients Policy Makers AI chatbot china digital digital health Healthcare Innovation smartphone technology telehealth telemedicine Source Type: blogs
