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Froedtert & MCW customizes services and tech initiatives around people

Healthcare It News

Wisconsin's Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin health network is striving to meet the challenges of healthcare in part by building healthcare information technology and healthcare services around people and their lives, expanding digital health initiatives beyond its Epic EHR , and diving into app-embedded digital therapeutics.

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How to Address Security Issues in IoT Devices – Cybersecurity

Healthcare IT Today

Identification and Authentication : To ensure that the identity of all entities (patients, doctors, devices, etc.) Cyber resiliency is an important aspect of healthcare information technology and focuses on the ability of systems to withstand, recover and adapt to different types of failures, threats, and attacks.

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What will be the impact of COVID-19 on the next wave of health IT innovation?

Healthcare It News

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of all kinds of healthcare information technology, from telehealth to artificial intelligence. Crunchbase estimates that healthcare technology companies have raised a record-breaking $36.6 billion globally from 2020 through October 2021.

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Bipartisan Legislation Introduced to Modernize Health Data Privacy Laws

HIPAA Journal

Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and aims to set up a new commission that will be tasked with analyzing current federal and state laws covering health data privacy and make recommendations for improvements to cover the current technology landscape. “As

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A closer look at the tech needed for new care-at-home and aging-in-place models

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

They'll come at different points and in different shifts, so sharing that information becomes critical. What kinds of healthcare information technology can help this situation? All those care team members won't be at your home at the same time.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Hamilton at AllianceChicago says the global COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted expectations regarding the approach and process health IT professionals follow to identify, select and deploy healthcare information technology tools. Digital health part of mastering medicine.

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