Sandra Johnson, Senior Vice President, Client Services, CliniComp
With 97% of health data currently going unused and clinician burnout at crisis levels, the healthcare industry is facing a critical inflection point: the transition from legacy…
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Faced with the complexity of more than 50 interconnected IT systems, the innovative Schützen Rheinfelden Clinic turned this challenge into an opportunity. Under the leadership of IT director Matthias Meyer, the clinic chose Enovacom…
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When it comes to cybersecurity incidents, such as data breaches or ransomware attacks, time is of the essence. For both detecting the incidents and responding to ongoing attacks, it is vital that you handle them…
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Aimee Cardwell, CISO in Residence at Transcend
Over the past few years, I’ve watched as the number of ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations across America has continued to trend upwards – undermining patient care and exposing millions of medical…
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Mike Nesbitt, health minister for Northern Ireland (Credit: Department of Health)
Around 1,600 patient appointments have been postponed owing to an IT outage at the Southern Health and Social Care Trust (SHSCT), Mike Nesbitt,…
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Personal health data from more than 485,000 women has been stolen after hackers accessed the IT systems of a cervical cancer screening programme in the Netherlands.
The incident occurred between 3 July and 6 July…
Poor interoperability between digital systems and challenges with GP registration processes in prisons are causing risks to patient safety, according to an investigation by the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB).
The report, ‘Healthcare provision…
Thousands of patient records are being reviewed after incorrect vaccination status codes were mistakenly logged in GP IT systems.
Integrated care boards (ICBs) have written to 337 GP practices after 57,000 records were identified as…
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has signed a long-term contract with TeleTracking UK to implement a care coordination centre.
The centre will be powered by TeleTracking’s integrated healthcare Operations Platform, Operations IQ and Location IQ…
Birmingham Children’s Hospital (Credit: ALLYOU Grzegorz Wasowicz / Shutterstock.com)
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with an electronic patient record (EPR) system from Epic.
It will provide a new core…
