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LockBit Ransomware Targets Croatia's Largest Hospital
2024 03 Jul
In a significant cybercrime incident, the LockBit ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on Croatia’s largest hospital, the University Hospital Centre (KBC) in Zagreb. This breach disrupted the hospital's IT systems, impacting patient care and internal operations. The attack, part of a broader surge in cyberattacks in Croatia,...Read more
Protecting Rural Hospitals: Microsoft's Cybersecurity Initiative
2024 02 Jul
Rural hospitals are indispensable pillars of healthcare in the United States, providing essential services to communities often underserved by larger healthcare networks. However, these vital institutions face mounting challenges, with cyberattacks emerging as a significant threat. Recognizing this critical issue, Microsoft has launched the Microsoft...Read more
Evolution of Hospital in the Home (HiTH) Model and Connectivity Solutions
2024 24 May
The Hospitals in the Home (HiTH) care model, established since the 1950s in France and adopted in various countries including Australia, the UK, Canada, Israel, Spain, and the US, aims to alleviate capacity issues in healthcare, enhance efficiencies, cut costs, and improve patient experience by transitioning care from hospitals to homes. In Australia...Read more
Navigating Connectivity Challenges in Hospital-at-Home Settings
2024 11 Apr
Connectivity issues are the bane of the modern workplace, but in a Hospital-at-Home (H@H) setting, the stakes are raised higher, as it could lead to a critical lapse in patient care. For years, the telecommunications industry has grappled with the concept of the “last mile,” the final stretch of connectivity to a home or business. This bottleneck...Read more
Ransomware Puts 100 Romanian Hospitals Offline
2024 14 Feb
In a significant cybersecurity incident, Romanian officials have reported a ransomware attack on the Hippocrate platform, essential for the operation of IT infrastructure across multiple healthcare facilities, leading to disruption in over 100 hospitals. The cyberattack, occurring on the evening of February 11, compromised production servers,...Read more
Industry News
Philips ePatch and AI Analytics Rolled Out to 14 Spanish Hospitals for Heart Patient Monitoring
2024 22 May
Philips wearable ePatch and AI analytics platform help detect potentially life-threatening irregular heartbeats The solution helps University Hospital Vall d’Hebron achieve reduced average length of stay, relieve emergency room pressure, and reduce costs Royal Philips , a global leader in health technology, today announced the successful...Read more
Cleveland Clinic London Becomes First Private Hospital in the UK to Achieve EMRAM Stage 6
2023 15 Sep
Cleveland Clinic London has earned Stage 6 validation on the HIMSS EMRAM Maturity Model, becoming the first private hospital in the UK to receive this achievement and one of eight hospitals in the UK to Stage 6 and above. EMRAM, the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model , measures clinical outcomes, patient engagement and clinician use...Read more
HCA Healthcare Collaborates With Google Cloud to Bring Generative AI to Hospitals
2023 29 Aug
AI technology to help improve workflows, reduce administrative burden and allow physicians and nurses to spend more time with patients HCA Healthcare, Inc., one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, and Google Cloud announced a new collaboration designed to use generative AI technology to improve workflows on time-consuming tasks,...Read more
PatientTrak Debuts Digital Intake Forms for Hospital Outpatient Centers
2022 09 May
PatientTrak, a leading patient engagement software provider announced the addition of electronic intake forms to its technology suite. PatientTrak Digital Intake Forms is a world-class patient engagement solution that creates automated intake, reduces staff workload, and modernizes the patient experience. The new HIPAA-compliant forms product...Read more
American Hospital Collaborates with Siemens Healthineers as key Technology Partner
2022 26 Jan
The UAE’s leading healthcare provider, American Hospital Dubai, has partnered with Siemens Healthineers, a global leader in pioneering medical technologies for advanced solutions in Diagnostic Imaging and Lab Diagnostics equipment. With American Hospital’s goal of providing world-class medical service to the community, the hospital always adopts...Read more
Articles
Polytechnic University Hospital
2012 22 May
"La Fe" in Valencia, Spain-Mobility System to Guarantee Clinical Safety and Optimise Beside Processes,Saving Cost. This specialty care centre is part of the Spanish public hospital network, with 1,300 beds, 39 operating rooms and more than 4,000 patients/day. Taking advantage of relocating to a new hospital, an innovative RFID and Wi-Fi system has...Read more
The My HCL Project (Lyon Public Hospital is, France)
2012 22 May
Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL) is made up of 14 public hospitals, 123 surgical units and handles 900,000 medical appointments every year. The MyHCL project aims to facilitate the lives of our patients and increase their loyalty by offering online services like appointment requests, admissions, meetings or follow-up. MyHCL is a web application with...Read more
Continuous Disinfection of the Hospital Environment.
2012 22 May
Using High Intensity Narrow-Spectrum Light(HINS-Light) Increased awareness of the importance of the hospital environment as a potential source of nosocomial pathogens has led to an upsurge of interest in hospital cleaning and decontamination procedures and technologies. It is now known that certain pathogens, such as MRSA and Acinetobacter can...Read more
Hospital Informatics in Greece
2012 22 May
The current trend in innovative healthcare provision is the use of information and communication technology (ICT). ICT is totally affiliated with the development of added value. The implementation of informatics for the production and diffusion of intra-hospital medical information, where the collision between technology’s rationalism and bureaucracy...Read more
Investing in the Hospital of the Future
2010 03 May
Authors: Stephen Wright Executive Director, European Centre for Health Assets & Architecture. Bernd Rechel is a Researcher at the European Observatory on Health Systems & Policies and Honorary Lecturer at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Martin McKee is Professor of European Public Health at London School of Hygiene &...Read more
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Healthcare 4.6: Advancing Technology, Digital Solutions, Smart Hospitals
2021 15 Jun
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HCP 2019 Spring Hospital & Healthcare I.T. Conference
2019 01 Apr
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