GP practices across Kent and Medway are facing disruption following a major IT failure which led to online services being suspended.
The outage left clinicians and administration teams at the majority of surgeries unable to…
Healthcare IT leaders are past questioning whether AI belongs in healthcare and have moved onto the challenge of determining where it delivers the most improvement with the least disruption. Radiology is a prime area…
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Massive Service Disruption Hits Verizon Network
A significant telecommunications crisis unfolded on Wednesday when nearly 200,000 Verizon customers found themselves completely disconnected from mobile phone and internet services. As America’s largest wireless service provider, Verizon…
Why Resilience Demands a Clear View of Operations
One significant challenge healthcare organizations face in establishing resilience is having data and lines of business that operate in silos, which can limit visibility into these operations….
Managing the Culture Change: Beyond Day One
Sentara’s EHR migration did not come without challenges, Thomas says. “The biggest challenge is the cultural change within the IT organization.”
To ensure a successful migration, Sentara broke down…
Medicare Reimbursement Reinstated for Hospital-at-Home Programs
Health systems across the United States are rapidly relaunching hospital-at-home programs following the restoration of Medicare reimbursement through the federal government’s reopening agreement. The resumption marks a critical recovery…
Pathology supplier Synnovis is contacting NHS organisations which had data stolen and published online following a major cyber attack last year.
The ransomware attack on 4 June 2024, which led to a patient death, caused widespread…
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What You Should Know:
– Healthcare organizations are facing an unprecedented cyber threat landscape, making the need to elevate cyber resilience to a strategic business priority more urgent than ever.
– According to the…
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The following is a guest article by Trent Waterhouse, CMO at GlobalMeet
Most healthcare organizations have invested heavily in business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) planning to protect data, restore systems, and maintain day-to-day operations…
Exclusive: An Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, which affected more than 1,000 companies and millions of internet users, is believed to have disrupted patient care across several NHS sites.
A digital chief at an acute…
