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Capturing the Opportunity of Digital Transformation
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How effectively are health systems and hospitals using information to drive improved care processes? Are they fully leveraging the information opportunity that is before them?
What do providers really think about the EHR?
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The Electronic Health Record (EHR) has been in the news a lot lately –for some good reasons, and some not-so-good ones. But one thing is clear: The healthcare industry has come to rely on this technology, and we’re not going back. While the financial rewards offered by the HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and […]
6 key lessons for innovation in healthcare
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The big challenge in healthcare is how do we evolve more effectively, how can we respond to the rapidly escalating challenges of demand, complexity, equity and cost. This is not so much a search for a single solution, but rather the development of a process, as each organisation, region and country needs to have healthcare […]
Surgery Centers, EHRs and Campfire Coffee: Matt’s Story
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If you’re like me, the digital shakeups rumbling across industries interest you. And, this curiosity bumps you into examples while just “doing life.” It even happens while camping with friends. While sipping campfire coffee around a picnic table, a friend told me about his new position as a hospital purchasing operations manager at an ambulatory […]
How digital ready is your hospital? Find out.
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Above and beyond – that’s what your network needs to do. The pressures of the evolving healthcare environment require the network to go beyond supporting rising IT demands. It needs...
Protect the network. Protect your patients.
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Just think of the volume of healthcare data being transferred and stored every day—data from connected medical devices, electronic health records (EHR), clinical workstations, and smart hospital applications for patients,...
Healthcare hit by global ransomware attack – again
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Like a nasty strain of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, ransomware reared its ugly head again this week. This attack is called Nyetya, as named by Cisco’s Talos threat intelligence team. (You may have heard it referred to in the press as Petya, but we believe this variant is different enough to warrant its own moniker.) Nyetya is […]
The network prescription for better business outcomes
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What if your network could help you personalize care, streamline clinical workflows, optimize business operations, and facilitate security across your organization? Cisco DNA for healthcare means faster, flexible deployment and...
From the floor of Cisco Live: IoT Threat Defense in Healthcare
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What are IoT devices in healthcare? In my experience talking with customers, I don’t believe I’ve ever received the same answer twice. Most often, they call out patient home monitoring devices and consumer-grade fitness trackers. But to me, an IoT device is anything that you connect to the network. And in healthcare, we are certainly connecting more […]
Why Cisco for Healthcare
Cisco has worked with over 46,000 healthcare organizations, hospitals, and clinics in 130 countries worldwide.
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