Health IT

Up to 43% of telemetry use in non-ICU units may lack a clear clinical indication. Yet many health systems still lack an enterprise view of how monitoring is being used, whether orders and device activity align, how long telemetry continues,…

Each minute an acute ischemic stroke goes untreated destroys roughly 1.9 million neurons. Yet door-to-needle times — the interval from a patient’s emergency department arrival to the clot-dissolving medication — still vary between hospitals, between facilities in one health system,…

Health systems and physicians largely agree on where digital health should take healthcare. New research shows they often part ways on how to get there. A survey of 100 health system executives and 233 physicians found executives tend to judge…

Healthcare security teams already collect signals from across their systems. The challenge is connecting thousands of alerts quickly enough to act. That urgency is growing. The average healthcare data breach costs $7.42 million, according to IBM, while attackers are using…

Provider organizations have the budget, the roadmap and the confidence. Scaling is still where initiatives break down. Digital transformation spending is climbing across the industry, and 92% of executives expect measurable ROI within 24 months. But asked to name the…

Enterprise server prices are up 8-5%, RAM-heavy builds are up 15-25%, and SSD lead times now run three to six months. That repricing has landed in the middle of a planning cycle already complicated by AI. Next-generation GPU racks draw…

Healthcare ERP programs rarely struggle because leaders selected the wrong platform. Risk more often begins with organizational decisions that were never resolved. Unresolved decisions resurface later as budget pressure, resource constraints, redesign, testing issues, adoption challenges and post-go-live instability, and…

Health systems process enormous volumes of protected health information every day, which makes every facility a high-value target. Most IT teams already treat encryption as a baseline defense. Fewer can prove the encryption they rely on actually works as promised.…

A fully staffed perioperative team is essential to safe, efficient surgical care — and rising procedural demand, clinician shortages and anesthesia constraints keep testing it. But workforce shortages are only half the problem. The other half is deployment: getting the…

Picture a revenue cycle where surgical cancellations are rare, A/R runs below the national benchmark and leadership can see workflow performance in real time. That’s where one Indiana orthopedic practice landed after three years of continuous revenue cycle automation. The…