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A Concerning Gap in Cybersecurity for Medical Technology

Health Populi

Notwithstanding mass adoption of antivirus protection and firewalls among healthcare providers, there remains a security gap for biomedical technologies, according to a report from Zingbox. This concerning finding was confirmed in recent observations from Gartner, which wrote in a market trends report that, “generally, medical devices are not replaced for at least ten years, with many running old software that has not been updated or patched.” Zingbox learned that most healthcare exe

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National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Takeaways

Health Blawg

At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). These are timely and important reminders, relevant to everyone in the regulated community of covered entities and business associates, particularly in light of OCR’s recent settlement agreement with Anthem in connection with its major breach of a couple years ago (see more on my thoughts about the Anthem breach here), as well as OCR’

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Keeping heart failure patients out of the hospital

Osf Healthcare

Nationwide, death and re-hospitalization rates remain high among people with heart failure who have transitioned from in-patient to out-patient care. As a result, OSF HealthCare has made it a priority to reduce its own mortality and readmission rates among this population using innovative methods and collaborative thinking.

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5 Common Questions About Medication Adherence

Health Dialog

Today, medication non-adherence is one of the biggest drivers of poor medical outcomes and rising healthcare costs. While it may seem like a simple task to take medications as directed, an astounding 30 percent of prescriptions are never filled and 50 percent are not taken as prescribed. While every situation is unique, many patients cite common barriers to non-adherence like knowledge gaps, a lack of time, inability to refill prescriptions, negative side effects, and more.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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Consumers Want Help With Health: Can Healthcare Providers Supply That Demand?

Health Populi

Among people who have health insurance, managing the costs of their medical care doesn’t rank as a top frustration. Instead, attending to health and wellbeing, staying true to an exercise regime, maintaining good nutrition, and managing stress top U.S. consumers’ frustrations — above managing the costs of care not covered by insurance.

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National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Takeaways

Health Blawg

At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). These are timely and important reminders, relevant to everyone in the regulated community of covered entities and business associates, particularly in light of OCR’s recent settlement agreement with Anthem in connection with its major breach of a couple years ago (see more on my thoughts about the Anthem breach here), as well as OCR’

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National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Takeaways

Health Blawg

At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). These are timely and important reminders, relevant to everyone in the regulated community of covered entities and business associates, particularly in light of OCR’s recent settlement agreement with Anthem in connection with its major breach of a couple years ago (see more on my thoughts about the Anthem breach here), as well as OCR’

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National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Takeaways

Health Blawg

At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). These are timely and important reminders, relevant to everyone in the regulated community of covered entities and business associates, particularly in light of OCR’s recent settlement agreement with Anthem in connection with its major breach of a couple years ago (see more on my thoughts about the Anthem breach here), as well as OCR’

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National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Takeaways

Health Blawg

At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). These are timely and important reminders, relevant to everyone in the regulated community of covered entities and business associates, particularly in light of OCR’s recent settlement agreement with Anthem in connection with its major breach of a couple years ago, as well as OCR’s release of a new and improved security risk assessme

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National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Takeaways

Health Blawg

At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). These are timely and important reminders, relevant to everyone in the regulated community of covered entities and business associates, particularly in light of OCR’s recent settlement agreement with Anthem in connection with its major breach of a couple years ago, as well as OCR’s release of a new and improved security risk assessme

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5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist

Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs

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National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Takeaways

Health Blawg

At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). These are timely and important reminders, relevant to everyone in the regulated community of covered entities and business associates, particularly in light of OCR’s recent settlement agreement with Anthem in connection with its major breach of a couple years ago, as well as OCR’s release of a new and improved security risk assessme

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Dave Ryan, Intel GM for IoT in Healthcare and the Future of Remote Care – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

My guest for this edition is Dave Ryan, Intel GM for Health and Life Sciences at its Internet of Things Group. We spoke at the Connected Health conference in Boston, an annual get-together of innovators in digital health and healthcare transformation which has long been on my list of regular stops on the conference circuit. Kicking things off, I asked Dave to define the Internet of Things, or IoT (noting that I had recently nearly been laughed out of the kitchen at home by some Luddite family me

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Dave Ryan, Intel GM for IoT in Healthcare and the Future of Remote Care – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

My guest for this edition is Dave Ryan, Intel GM for Health and Life Sciences at its Internet of Things Group. We spoke at the Connected Health conference in Boston, an annual get-together of innovators in digital health and healthcare transformation which has long been on my list of regular stops on the conference circuit. Kicking things off, I asked Dave to define the Internet of Things, or IoT (noting that I had recently nearly been laughed out of the kitchen at home by some Luddite family me

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Dave Ryan, Intel GM for IoT in Healthcare and the Future of Remote Care – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

My guest for this edition is Dave Ryan, Intel GM for Health and Life Sciences at its Internet of Things Group. We spoke at the Connected Health conference in Boston, an annual get-together of innovators in digital health and healthcare transformation which has long been on my list of regular stops on the conference circuit. Kicking things off, I asked Dave to define the Internet of Things, or IoT (noting that I had recently nearly been laughed out of the kitchen at home by some Luddite family me

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A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address

This guide highlights key areas that your sepsis detection platform should address to minimize the impact of this leading, entirely preventable cause of in-hospital deaths, as well as how to increase compliance by 20% in 30 days. Download to learn more!

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Dave Ryan, Intel GM for IoT in Healthcare and the Future of Remote Care – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

My guest for this edition is Dave Ryan, Intel GM for Health and Life Sciences at its Internet of Things Group. We spoke at the Connected Health conference in Boston, an annual get-together of innovators in digital health and healthcare transformation which has long been on my list of regular stops on the conference circuit. Kicking things off, I asked Dave to define the Internet of Things, or IoT (noting that I had recently nearly been laughed out of the kitchen at home by some Luddite family me

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Dave Ryan, Intel GM for IoT in Healthcare and the Future of Remote Care – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

My guest for this edition is Dave Ryan, Intel GM for Health and Life Sciences at its Internet of Things Group. We spoke at the Connected Health conference in Boston, an annual get-together of innovators in digital health and healthcare transformation which has long been on my list of regular stops on the conference circuit. Kicking things off, I asked Dave to define the Internet of Things, or IoT (noting that I had recently nearly been laughed out of the kitchen at home by some Luddite family me

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Dave Ryan, Intel GM for IoT in Healthcare and the Future of Remote Care – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

My guest for this edition is Dave Ryan, Intel GM for Health and Life Sciences at its Internet of Things Group. We spoke at the Connected Health conference in Boston, an annual get-together of innovators in digital health and healthcare transformation which has long been on my list of regular stops on the conference circuit. Kicking things off, I asked Dave to define the Internet of Things, or IoT (noting that I had recently nearly been laughed out of the kitchen at home by some Luddite family me

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Dave Ryan, Intel GM for IoT in Healthcare and the Future of Remote Care – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

My guest for this edition is Dave Ryan, Intel GM for Health and Life Sciences at its Internet of Things Group. We spoke at the Connected Health conference in Boston, an annual get-together of innovators in digital health and healthcare transformation which has long been on my list of regular stops on the conference circuit. Kicking things off, I asked Dave to define the Internet of Things, or IoT (noting that I had recently nearly been laughed out of the kitchen at home by some Luddite family me

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

Learn how to streamline productivity and efficiency across your organization with machine learning and artificial intelligence! No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users. This means that you can achieve a more consistent and engaging customer experience while reducing sources of friction.

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Dave Ryan, Intel GM for IoT in Healthcare and the Future of Remote Care – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

My guest for this edition is Dave Ryan, Intel GM for Health and Life Sciences at its Internet of Things Group. We spoke at the Connected Health conference in Boston, an annual get-together of innovators in digital health and healthcare transformation which has long been on my list of regular stops on the conference circuit. Kicking things off, I asked Dave to define the Internet of Things, or IoT (noting that I had recently nearly been laughed out of the kitchen at home by some Luddite family me

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How Food and Data Can Support Consumers and Healthy Living: Listening at Groceryshop

Health Populi

Eat food, not too much, mostly plants, Michael Pollan advised us on the cover of his breakthrough book on nutrition in America, In Defense of Food. In Las Vegas, it’s not too easy life according to Pollan. We’re at a fork in the road when it comes to food, retail grocery shopping, and health, which is an intersection I’m increasingly working in these days.

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Radicalizing Kindness for Health: Learning from Bhutan

Health Populi

“Happiness is within, but not within you alone as it is among us. If we can create happiness in a community, then we will be able to attain happiness as individuals,” observed Saamdu Chetri speaking at the International Psychological Congress last week. Chetri is head of Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Centre, which developed the Gross National Happiness Index.

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Healthcare Costs Stress Out U.S. Voters One Week Ahead of 2018 Mid-Term Elections

Health Populi

With seven days until voters go to the polls for what some call the most momentous U.S. election in decades, most Americans say that healthcare costs are a major stress, second only to money. So warns the Sixth Annual Nationwide TCHS Consumers Healthcare Survey , with the tagline: “Stressed Out: Americans and Healthcare.” Perhaps this is why healthcare has become a top voting issue for the 2018 mid-term elections that will be held on November 6 one week from today.

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