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We have recently looked at the risk of phishing scams in healthcare and how to avoid them. We have seen that the number of patient data breaches has reached one per day in 2018. But why do hackers continue the relentless attacks on healthcare institutions? What are the hackers after? What reward do ...

Physician-led team-based care is widely used as a coordinated effort to provide higher quality care to patients. Team members of different specialties are included to provide different strengths in a coordinated effort to create better outcomes. A team effort in a clinical setting has its challenges, and technology can help.

To accomplish effective team care, exceptional communication and ...

Stealing and exposing patient data is, unfortunately, a lucrative activity. Hackers are relentlessly looking for vulnerabilities in institutions that amass personal health data. In 2018 there were 365 data breaches involving patient data, that is one per day! In addition to the personal costs to the individuals who are ...

A trip to the hospital can be a stressful and overwhelming experience. While the patient is already unwell and concerned, they are also receiving information and guidance about their current and future care from physicians and therapists. Upon discharge, the patient or caretakers must take this information and continue self-treatment at home. But how is the patient to keep track and apply all ...

The partnership of medicine and technology has generated solutions for problems across the healthcare landscape. As more problems are solved, the number of software systems and apps that use the same data, but have different or overlapping purposes, continues to increase. At a point, it becomes difficult and time-consuming to manage redundant information across different systems. That is the ...