Enterprise imaging is similar in scope to the EHR, and it allows clinical users to properly identify, acquire, store, manage and visualize imaging studies from across their enterprise, regardless of device, modality, department, service line or location. Historically, each imaging department made its own decisions and purchases regarding these services, often resulting in siloes with significant storage and software duplication, inefficient routing, perilous database synchronization and user frustration (or worse, apathy). With major potential upside when done right, health systems can adopt a true enterprise imaging strategy, led by executive IT members with proportional governance oversight and clinical buy-in from leaders in key domains, such as Radiology, Cardiology, Endoscopy, PoCUS and more. Join us as we speak to leaders and have them share their experiences and opinions on how a true enterprise imaging strategy can be executed.
Exploring the ePHI Cyber Crisis & How to Fix It
It’s the dirty little secret among healthcare cyber professionals — they don’t know where all their ePHI is; not even close. And while those professionals are not to blame (healthcare workflows and, thus, data flows are messy business); they do have to get their arms around the problem. The first step? Understand it. In this unique webinar, we’ll explore the results of a Ponemon study on the state of ePHI in healthcare to learn just how bad the problem is and where the data might be. Then, we’ll explore ways to secure it and, in the process, hopefully give cyber professionals one less reason to be up at night.
Designing Cyber Recovery Strategies for Today’s Data-Heavy Enterprise
Savvy healthcare IT security professionals are as focused on an efficient recovery if something goes down as they are on keeping the enterprise up. And to be positioned for success around recovery, it’s imperative business continuity plans are right sized to address the large amounts of data that health systems are amassing every day. In this timely webinar, we’ll speak to leaders who know that — with such growth — the data-protection approach of yesterday may not work for today, let alone tomorrow. We’ll explore the policies, procedures, governance and technologies they are putting in place so that if things go down, they can be back up and running as soon as possible.
Developing a Patient Engagement Strategy that Avoids Vendor Sprawl
For a whole host of reasons — security, cost and interoperability to name a few — heath systems are looking to shrink the number of vendor/partners they work with. To that end, hospitals have launched application rationalization efforts seeking to retire one-offs or little used apps, along with raising the bar to bring in new ones. One area where this effort has run into challenges is around patient engagement, where point solution vendors seek to address the many tasks that fall under its large umbrella; such as access, communication, and readiness. In this timely webinar, we’ll speak to leaders who have thought through their patient engagement journey so — as they move from here to there — they don’t pick up an excessive number of isolated vendor/partners along the way.
Delivering Defense in Depth: Best Practices for Preventing & Addressing Credential Compromise
They represent the crown jewels for cybercriminals — legitimate login credentials that will allow them an undetected entrance to your network. And while security executives are doing everything possible — such as extensive training and phishing tests — to guard against compromise, it’s not a question of if but when someone will make a mistake and accidentally divulge their coveted username and password. If they do so, it’s possible for threat actors to run amok undetected in your environment. However, new technologies and strategies mean that’s no longer the case. In this timely webinar, we’ll speak to security leaders who are working hard to understand identity risks, and are leveraging a defense-in-depth strategy to detect and respond to active threats as quickly as possible.
Strategies for Reducing IT Costs Without Compromising Service
Like any cost center, IT departments are continually asked to spend less, without reducing either the quantity or quality of services they provide. If it sounds like a tall order, it is. That’s why many health systems, though they’ve tried mightily over the past few years, have seen limited success in doing more with less. But, believe it or not, there are ways to drive down spend that can leave an organization well positioned for the future, perhaps even more so than if they didn’t cut at all. In this timely webinar, we’ll speak to leaders who have made strides with — and have a fresh perspective on — cost-cutting to learn how they look at the problem, where they go first, and how to ensure any proposed changes are both actionable and sustainable.
Live @ HIMSS Partner Perspective Q&A with Mike Reinhart, Chairman & CEO, Quisitive: The Cloud Offers Significant Upside; but a Good Guide Sure Helps
The cloud can be a magical place of value and optimization – but only yields its secrets to those with the expertise to master it. The problem is that many health systems moved in too quickly or without that expertise, leaving IT executives in the position of having to go back and retro fit important […]
Enabling Asset Tracking & Facilitating Clinical Workflows with Person-Centered RTLS
Healthcare is dynamic, some might even say chaotic. Anyone who has spent five minutes in a busy hospital will attest to the fact that caregivers, patients and equipment move through the hallways, and in and out of rooms, at a dizzying pace. And with all that movement, it’s no surprise those same caregivers are often slowed down when they can’t find someone or something they need. In response to this dynamic, some health systems have embraced RTLS to reduce the time lost in searching and to add more context to their data for better insight into clinical workflows and operational outcomes. In this important webinar, we’ll speak to leaders about their RTLS journey, explore uses cases where it’s made a difference today and is positioned to do so tomorrow, review best practice for implementation and optimization, and cover how the technology has advanced over the past few years.
HIMSS Conference Preview: Deepti Pandita on Designing for Equity
Speaker: Deepti Pandita, CMIO and Associate Professor, Department of Medicine at University of California Irvine Health Session Title: Addressing Digital Disparities as a Part of Digital Transformation (presented under the auspices of the HIMSS/AMDIS Physician Informatics session) Day/Time/Location: Monday, March 11 • 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM Eastern Time; W230A Healthcare systems prioritize digital transformation […]
Strategies for Moving Towards a Uniform Digital Front Door Experience
Though health systems talk about what they want their “digital front door” to look like, the reality is they usually have many; none of which provide the same experience. That’s because often their individual hospitals, departments, service lines and physician practices — especially those recently acquired — have their own digital front doors, if they have one at all. For some, this may simply consist of a web site; for others, it may be a dedicated portal; while for a rare few, it can be a specialized mobile-native app with lots of functionality. The problem lies in the uneven patient experience this provides within a health system when someone who has interacted with a high-touch area later interacts with one at the other end of the spectrum. In this timely webinar, we’ll hear from leaders who are working hard to reduce the disparate avenues of entry into their organizations so patients have a more consistent and compelling digital front door experience.