IoT Roadblocks in Healthcare: Cost, Security, and Data Integration

The solutions are tailored to address specific challenges, which can become expensive for any one organization.

from HealthcareITNews

The healthcare industry saw an 11 percent boost in Internet of Things network connections between 2016 and 2017, ranking last behind four other key industries – manufacturing (84 percent), energy/utilities (41 percent), transportation/distribution (40 percent), and smart cities/communities (19 percent), according to “The Verizon State of the Market: Internet of Things 2017” report.

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Happy National Health IT Week!

October 2nd through 6th marks National Health IT Week and shines a spotlight on the value of health IT.

Monday, October 2nd, kicks off National Health IT Week, a nationwide awareness week developed by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and the Institute for e-Health Policy to shine a spotlight on how healthcare IT produces value, especially in relation to improved treatment and clinical care. Scores of conferences and other events, such as the Pop Health Forum in Chicago and Health 2.0 in Santa Clara, will be taking place nationwide, as well as online, with webinars scheduled throughout the week and the month of October, which is Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

For a full list of events happening around the country, please click here.

Can’t attend? Stay up to date on the happenings of National Health IT Week via #NHITWeek on Twitter.

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Too Many Healthcare Employees Would Share Sensitive Data

68% of employees at healthcare organizations would share sensitive, confidential, or regulated information under certain circumstances.

from Healthcare IT News

The most recent Dell End-User Security Survey has some found that three in four employees across all industries, including 68 percent of employees at healthcare organizations, would share sensitive, confidential or regulated information under certain circumstances. Some situations, such as being directed to do so by management (43 percent) or sharing with a person authorized to receive it (37 percent), would seem legitimate. But others, such as determining that the risk to their company is very low and the potential benefit of sharing information is high (23 percent), or feeling it will help themselves or the recipient do their jobs more effectively (22 percent and 13 percent respectively) play a bit looser with the rules.

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