Lessons From a Ransomware Attack: The Importance of Partnership & Collaboration
The following is a guest article by John Gaede, Director of Information Systems at Sky Lakes Medical Center.
Imagine a rural business is the victim of a cyberattack. A nefarious person or group convinces an unsuspecting employee to open an email promising a bonus. Within 12 hours, every piece of technology connected to that network, and every process needed to conduct daily operations, is paralyzed.
Now imagine that business is a hospital. It serves 80,000 people and it’s the only one within 10,000 square miles. Add to the scenario a global pandemic that is steadily ravaging the nation’s healthcare system. On October...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Security and Privacy 3M 3M Health Information Systems 3M HIS Abbadox Cohesity Cyberattacks Cybersecurity Electromek Diagnostic System FBI’s Source Type: blogs
AIOps Improving Service Assurance for the Healthcare Industry
The following is a guest article by Chris Menier, President of VIA AIOPS at Vitria Technology.
For healthcare providers and payers, improving the experience of members and patients requires replacing disconnected legacy systems with agile infrastructure and applications. Clinicians, technicians, and administrators can be more efficient and effective. Digital transformation of systems and platforms is changing the way hospitals and clinics are serving patients and the way insurers are acquiring and servicing members. Cloud and 5G is the powerful business platform for digital transformation and critical to adopting new techn...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops 5G AIOps Artificial Intelligence Augmented Reality Chris Menier Dan Schneider DevOps Digital Transformation Healthcare Sce Source Type: blogs
My latest ultrasound blog on fatty liver
I ' ve written a detailed blog about fatty liver and sonography of this condition.Visit: All about fatty liver (Source: cochinblogs)
Source: cochinblogs - February 18, 2023 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
Patients lose when states block independent doctors
Patients win when independent doctors open shop. More choice means improved service and lower costs for everyone. Yet states often intervene to shut down health care competition. Virginia regulators blocked Maryland-based radiologist Mark Monteferrante when he tried to expand his independent practice across state lines. Alabama regulators stopped family physician Nancy White when she tried to offer residential drug
Read more…
Patients lose when states block independent doctors originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 11, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Jaimie Cavanaugh, JD and Daryl James Tags: Policy Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Antibacterial Smart Sutures Visible in CT Scans
Researchers at RMIT University in Australia have developed ‘smart stitches’ that can fight bacteria and reveal the location of the sutured area in CT scans. The sutures have been developed to reduce the chances of surgical site infections and also make life a little easier for clinicians, as the material shows up in CT scans, allowing for identification of the location of the sutures in the body and quick assessment if they are performing as required. In particular, the researchers envisage the sutures as a replacement for vaginal meshes that are used to treat prolapses, for which surgical site infection rates tend to ...
Source: Medgadget - February 9, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Radiology Surgery RMIT Source Type: blogs
Terahertz Spectroscopy to Assess Severity of Skin Burns
Scientists at Stony Brook University in New York have developed a hand-held scanner that uses terahertz time-domain spectroscopy and neural network data analysis to non-invasively assess the severity of skin burns. At present, it is difficult to visually assess the depth of a burn injury, which could negatively influence treatment outcomes. The device probes the burn injury with pulses of terahertz radiation. The terahertz reflectivity of the skin is altered by burn injuries, allowing a neural network to assess the signal and estimate the burn depth. The technology could allow more precise assessments of burn injuries and ...
Source: Medgadget - February 9, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Dermatology Medicine Radiology Surgery stonybrooku Source Type: blogs
Focused Ultrasound Releases Brain Biomarkers
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a technique that can release difficult-to-access biomarker proteins from the brain. At present, the researchers are focused on releasing tau proteins that are implicated in Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. These proteins are typically locked behind specialized blood vessels in the brain, otherwise known as the blood-brain barrier, but allowing them to enter the bloodstream could enable clinicians to rapidly and minimally invasively assess their status by analyzing a simple blood sample. This approach involves delivering microbubbles...
Source: Medgadget - February 8, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Neurology Radiology focused ultrasound FUS wustl WUSTLmed Source Type: blogs
Tiny Patch for Cardiac Ultrasound Imaging
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a wearable ultrasound system for cardiac imaging. The postage stamp-sized patch can be worn on the skin of the chest and uses AI and ultrasound waves to perform advanced imaging of the heart. The technology can even be worn to perform cardiac ultrasound imaging during exercise. Each patch can be worn for up to 24 hours, and provides information on how much blood the heart is pumping, a key metric in detecting and appraising a variety of cardiac issues. The researchers hope that the technology may lead to more accessible and widespread cardiac monitoring.
...
Source: Medgadget - February 7, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiology Radiology cardiac ultrasound echocardiography UCSD Source Type: blogs
Breaking the burnout: How health care leaders can support physician well-being
Recently I was scrolling through posts from a physician leadership Facebook group. I came upon one that caught my eye. It said something like, “Does anyone have information I can share with my radiologists to show them the impact of working through lunch?” I was happy to see a post that focused on physician well-being.
Read more…
Breaking the burnout: How health care leaders can support physician well-being originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 1, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Jennifer Shaer, MD Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Expanding Real World Datasets
How are you working to advance research and improve patient outcomes? Are you precisely matching records across disparate datasets? Find out at a Webinar TODAY Feb 1st 1pm ET Sponsored by LexisNexis Risk Solutions Health Care
Healthcare’s fragmented data silos and strict but necessary privacy restrictions make it difficult to link real-world datasets. Legacy tokenization technology has helped link records across disparate data sources, but it lacks the accuracy required to uncover actionable insights that can truly improve patient outcomes. Next-generation tokenization technology leveraging a Referential Data Layer is...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Camille Cook Chirag Parghi DataSets Lexis Nexis Token Matching Source Type: blogs
Ultrasound Tornado Rapidly Disrupts Blood Clots
A team of researchers at North Carolina State University have developed an ultrasound transducer that can disrupt blood clots in the brain quickly by creating an ultrasound vortex or ‘tornado’. The transducer is designed to be housed in a catheter that can be advanced through the vasculature until it reaches the site of a blood clot in the brain, such as those that occur in cases of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. The technique can disrupt clots more quickly than conventional forward-facing ultrasounds, as the vortex wave creates shear stress that helps to break the clot into pieces. The approach has the potential to...
Source: Medgadget - January 30, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Neurology Neurosurgery Radiology NCState Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – January 28, 2023
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Lessons Learned From a Health System’s Internal Data Breach. An Alabama health system recently fired an employee who accessed 2,500 patient records without authorization. Mike Semel said this is a telltale example of why health systems need to enforce HIPAA’s minimum necessary access rule, along with logging access and updating incident respo...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Sr. Solution Architect – Radiology
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Sr. Solution Architect – Radiology position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by e4 Services and is in Alabama.
Here’s a description of the position:
e4 is a Healthcare Consulting firm based in Philadelphia established in 2006. We currently have a growing staff that represent us at healthcare organizations across the US with a large presence in the mid-atlantic region. We provide healthcare IT and operational support. Our services include project man...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 25, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT e4 e4 Services e4 Services Jobs Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Job Seekers Radiology Sr. Solution Architect Source Type: blogs
FMGE Radiology Jan 2023
Sharing a video discussing the recall questions of FMGE Jan 2023 Radiology Famous Radiology Blog by Dr Sumer Sethi www.sumersethi.com (Source: Sumer's Radiology Site)
Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - January 22, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
A mundane ultrasound? The emotional weight of diagnostic tests.
The word mundane is defined as an occurrence that is very ordinary and, therefore, not interesting. However, what may be mundane for one may be monumental for another, especially if one’s health is in question. An ultrasound provides needed information to trained medical personnel for the evaluation of the health status of an individual. In
Read more…
A mundane ultrasound? The emotional weight of diagnostic tests. originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 18, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Michele Luckenbaugh Tags: Conditions Patients Radiology Source Type: blogs
