Jan 24, 2025 · Cyberattacks targeting healthcare organizations are rising, and the financial and operational toll they take is growing. A recent report from Proofpoint found 92% of healthcare organizations reported experiencing a cyberattack in 2024, up from 88% in 2023, while the average cost of the most expensive attack was $4.7 million.. While safeguarding sensitive …

It’s no secret that healthcare is a data-driven business. The average hospital produces roughly 50 petabytes of data every year. That’s more than twice the amount of data housed in the Library of Congress, and it amounts to 137 terabytes per day.Due in large part to the proliferation of medical devices, genetic testing and patient-generated health data, coupled with near-universal use of ...

Northwell Health and Nuvance Health. These two nonprofit healthcare organizations announced in February that they plan to form a new integrated regional health system to care for patients in New York and Connecticut. The new organization will include approximately 14,500 providers and more than 1,000 care sites.

LLMs and EHR Integrations. The clinical documentation use case has seen significant activity in recent months. The news site Healthcare IT Today lists nearly 20 ambient clinical voice vendors, with AI-powered tools that document clinical visits and automatically generate summaries.These vendors range from recently launched startups to Nuance, a speech recognition company that …

Electronic medical record and electronic health record adoption is on the rise — 93 percent of American hospitals now use EHRs, up from just 73 percent 10 years ago. Legislation is similarly evolving to meet increased digital demand: New regulations likely to take effect in 2022 will allow patients to download their EHRs onto digital devices, and healthcare facilities must now …

What Can a SIEM Tool Do for Healthcare Organizations? The National Institute of Standards and Technology defines SIEM as an “application that provides the ability to gather security data from information system components and present that data as actionable information via a single interface.”. The primary value proposition for SIEM is its ability to bring a lot of security …

Reid Health Finds Efficiencies with IT Service Management. With nurse-to-patient ratios increasing at Richmond, Ind.-based Reid Health, the IT department wants to ease providers’ workflows so they can focus on working at the top of their licenses, says CIO Muhammad Siddiqui.. Nurses need to get medication to patients on time and check vitals regularly, among …

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The next step is to treat it. A common way of treating this disease is through catheter ablation, which uses radio-frequency energy to destroy irregular heart tissue that can cause arrhythmias.However, this approach has a low success rate with patients experiencing arrhythmias in the upper chambers, especially those who have had arrhythmias for many …

As the world navigates a future driven by artificial intelligence, healthcare organizations are seeking to quickly and methodically embed the technology through workflows, increasing efficiency, productivity and safety, and potentially leading to greater employee engagement and improved patient satisfaction.. The healthcare industry is at the forefront in the journey to AI …