Leveraging Technology
Trustee talking points
As health care becomes more complex and shifts its emphasis from volume to value, decisions on buying technology also need to become more sophisticated.
When considering new clinical technology, hospitals need to pay attention to its interoperabillity —…
Hospitals continue to funnel significant resources into securing the electronic health record information that is increasingly the target of cyberattacks. But staying one step ahead of increasingly sophisticated hackers continues to be an ongoing challenge.
Trustee talking points
As computing technology has moved into nearly every part of the hospital and its operations, opportunities for cyberattack have multiplied.
Hospitals and health systems are increasingly vulnerable not just to isolated cyber incidents but to far-reaching cyber crises.…
Population Health
Helping hospitals create community partnerships
A new guide from the American Hospital Association’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative highlights promising practices for creating effective and sustainable hospital-community partnerships to build a culture…
If they didn’t know it already, members of the hospital field’s C-suites do now: Keeping health care data out of the hands of cybercriminals is harder than ever.
Thanks to stories in recent months about the escalation in the types of acts criminals will take to profit from stealing…
Trustee talking points
An ever-increasing amount of data is available for health care leaders to use in making decisions about drugs, devices and procedures.
The flood of data can lead to poor results if it's not interpreted correctly.
Board members need to be alert to randomness…
Hospitals and health systems are under attack from new forms of viruses every day.
But some of these viruses don’t attack the human body. As recent news reports have highlighted, hospitals and health systems are now prime targets for malicious malware viruses that seek to infiltrate…
Iron lungs out. Surgical robots in. The heart-wrenching sight of rows of children trapped in iron lungs has given way to the ability to transplant lungs.
As stewards of the strategic direction of their organizations, trustees must understand how new technology can shape and advance strategy. In…
IBM Watson Health last year formally jumped into predictive analytics and has been on a tear ever since, doing deals and partnering with health care providers and commercial enterprises. For years, IBM had a traditional computer infrastructure business in health care.
Is there a more intimidating phrase out there today than Big Data? It sounds like some sort of bully. Oh-oh, avert your eyes, Big Data is swaggering this way.