There are many reasons it makes sense to add a public cloud environment to your business. Especially in a busy location, visitors, patients, and guests might demand it.
Unfortunately, being in the medical industry, you have a big hurdle to overcome before you implement: HIPAA.
HIPAA regulates how access points and data protection services are handled for protecting sensitive personal health information.
It doesn’t seem plausible that a hacker would target Netflix in order to gain access to your EHR database, yet it might be more doable then you think.
It’s called credential stuffing, and it’s becoming a huge problem.
Hackers used to work long, hard hours, trying to break in one account at a time.
What happens to PHI data right now during the pandemic? Who is it shared with? Who has access to it? What rights do patients have? Or medical providers?
A new bill has been presented in congress called the Public Health Emergency Privacy Act. It’s designed to protect health data collected during emergency situations.
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought the entire global economy to a screeching halt. As we write this post, almost all major countries of the world are under lockdown, forcing everyone to stay indoors. Only essential services remain open and people have been strictly advised to stay within the safety of their homes.
Smart technology. Artificial intelligence. Telemedicine. The changes in today’s healthcare are coming on strong.
But at the end of the day, you still only have 24 hours to deal with it all. And if you don’t want to work the full 24 hours every day, something has to give.
What does the future of healthcare look like?
It takes little imagination to see technology integrated into every step of the process. In fact, we add a bit more to it each day. No matter what capacity you enter the system, whether as a patient or as the head of a large medical practice, eHealth is being implemented as:
Electronic Health Records - enables easy communication between different healthcare professionals
Lifetime Health Records - full aggregation of individual electronic health records capturing population-based tracking to both predict and anticipate future events
Telehealth - includes all types of physical and psychological remote monitoring that does not require a patient to travel to see a specialist
Public Health Education - complex media channels that allow citizens to stay informed on a variety of health and medical related topics
Virtual Healthcare Teams - healthcare professionals who collaborate and share information on patients and events
And of course, this is just a start.
Have you ever thought about how much data exists in the world?
Have you ever thought about how much data is created on an average day?
The statistics are staggering, especially when you consider how far we’ve come in such a short period of time. For example, according to Forbes:
By 2020, over 6.1 billion smartphone users will exist throughout the world
By 2020, there will be over 50 billion smart devices developed to collect, analyze and share data
In 2015, over 1 trillion photos were taken, and billions of them were shared online
In 2017, over 80 percent of all photos will be taken with smart technology
Every single minute of the day, over 500 new websites are developed
We perform more than 40,000 search queries a second on Google alone
The total volume of data that the industry captures and stores doubles every 1.2 years
What do we do with that much data? How can we possibly use it to our advantage?
Big Data is a concept that seems to be popping up everywhere in the business world, no matter what industry you’re in.
Work smarter, not harder.
If you’ve taken and efficiency classes you’ll know this is a time-honored practice.
Still, the concept of working smarter, not harder is evolving all the time. A few short years ago improvements may have evolved around software and ergonomics.
Strategy. Planning. Purpose. Tactics.
Everybody talks about the importance of having each of these things in place. Yet how many businesses are upfront with what their strategies truly are? How many employees are on board with each key tactic, and know how to move forward when challenges arise?
Strategy is a strange thing.