Why It’s Important for Healthcare to Stop Diversion of Controlled Substances

Your boss in healthcare IT just sent you an email. It’s titled, “Diversion of Controlled Substances,” and it’s flagged. Private and Confidential.  There’s no discussion to what the title means. And the message body doesn’t give any details, either. All it asks are for the logs of select medical…


Read More

Clinicians’ Role in the Success of Medical Technology

Laypeople often think that the field of medicine embodies the cutting edge of science: massive institutions staffed by people with numerous fancy degrees marshaling billions of dollars in resources to develop advanced treatments for devastating diseases. Yet, the on-the-ground reality in much of…


Read More

Securing Healthcare Information in a Digital World

While the rapid advancements in telehealth and digital healthcare that have been spurred on by the COVID-19 pandemic promise to deliver more care to more people more affordably, they have also opened up new avenues for bad actors to access sensitive information like patient data. It’s no secret…


Read More

Medical Computers and the Hospital of the Future

With the advancements made in digital technology during the 2010s, we were already on the cusp of radical changes in medicine before COVID-19 hit. Now, things that just seemed like distant possibilities before have rapidly become inevitabilities. Telehealth was still a newfangled luxury at the end…


Read More