How to Meet the 2020 Targets for Reducing Hospital-Acquired Infections
The importance of infection control can’t be understated — according to the CDC, infections acquired in the hospital cause 99,000 deaths per year, while further infecting or endangering 1.7 million in total. And considering we are nearly at the end of the 5-year HAI action plan put in place by the…
Solving the Self-Diagnosis Problem
Doctors everywhere have the same story: a patient comes in with a full rundown of just exactly what their medical issue is before the doctor has even had a chance to speak, much less check the patient or run tests. Self-diagnosis is often a burden on patients and practitioners, often causing more…
The Benefits and Dangers of Digital Collaboration in Healthcare
One of the greatest barriers for healthcare success, from patient relationships to lab testing to second opinions, is simple geography. When you’re a patient, you’re limited to the doctors and facilities near you. For doctors, the distance of a lab, specialist, or pathologist limits both the speed…
How Hackable Are Modern Medical Devices?
Headlines all around the medical community are decrying connected medical devices and the inherent danger from hackers. But is there any truth to the concern? Should we be worried that nefarious keyboard cowboys are going to hack into our pacemakers and medical tablets and insulin pumps and cause…
How Can New Technology Fulfill the Promise of Precision Medicine?
The future of medicine isn’t a matter of mass-market solutions, of one-size-fits-all medical treatment. As it stands now, we must content ourselves with vaccines and surgeries and medicine that do the most good for the most amount of people: there are always going to be outliers, and cost and…
The Role Healthcare I.T. Plays in Physician Burnout
Doctor burnout is a real phenomenon, one that’s only become more prevalent and more dangerous in recent times. Not only can burnout lead to mistakes that can harm patients, but it can also cause otherwise top-notch physicians to eventually drop the profession altogether, which only furthers the…
Is Industrial Cybersecurity Even Possible?
Industrial control systems have made life easier for automation and manufacturing, and are a vital component in both the present and future of the industry. Unfortunately, with every new technology or process comes complications, unique problems that were unforeseen or impossible-to-imagine in the…
Healthcare Needs to Communicate Better
Playwright George Bernard Shaw once famously said: “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” Anyone who’s ever worked in a hospital (or healthcare in general) can attest to just how sadly true that sentiment is. And while there are thousands of reasons…
4 New Advances in Artificial Intelligence in the Healthcare Industry
Artificial intelligence is, no surprise, an evolving field of research and programming that is constantly churning out new tools. The healthcare industry is, of course, a perfect use for many of these tools: healthcare is all about trying to find a way to sort through and understand a glut of…
3 Ways to Make Doctors Hate EHR a Little Less
We all know the truth: doctors and nurses would rather spend their time, you know, being doctors and nurses instead of crouched in front of dimly-glowing monitors, punching patient information into electronic health record systems. However, the fact remains that EHR can be extremely helpful for…
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