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Connected Healthcare Offers Many Benefits, but Risk is a Concern

by Jackie Davis
June 6, 2019
in Digital Transformation
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Connected devices and technologies are making connected healthcare a reality. With data sharing, improved patient outcomes, and cost reductions, connected healthcare boasts its fair share of benefits – but there are also concerns. With the large amounts of data these technologies produce, how can providers ensure security and quality?

5 Things About Connected Healthcare

Making connected healthcare a reality for providers and patients is the main goal of Connected Health at Partners Healthcare. Joseph Kvedar, MD, Vice President of the company, works to bring connected healthcare to hospitals and doctor’s offices throughout the country. Kvedar summarizes five important things about connected healthcare implementation.

Connected healthcare delivers care that is independent of time and place, uses technology to empower patients, and enables a “one-to-many model of care.” He offers more insights in a recent interview.

Read more here.

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Partnership the Key to Connected Care

For healthcare IT leaders, connected healthcare is top of mind, but it isn’t always easy to achieve. With large amounts of data, rapidly changing technology, and insufficient in-house resources, IT implementation can be a burden. By partnering with outside technology vendors, healthcare facilities can grow their IT capabilities without breaking the budget or interrupting services.

“Working with technology partners helps healthcare IT teams move data to the cloud, invest in elastic computing and computing on demand, as well as data warehousing as a service, machine learning as a service, and integration as a service, all of which help them actually create actionable outcomes from the data,” said Chris Cullen of Perspectium.

Read more here.

Securing Connected Devices

Connected devices bring the opportunity for better healthcare, easier data sharing, and the risk for security concerns. With thousands of Internet of Things (IoT) connections throughout a hospital, network security and privacy are important.

“The main trend of major concern is the explosion of connected devices we’re seeing in the healthcare domain,” says Jonathan Langer, CEO of medical device security vendor Medigate. Hospitals need to consider “the sheer quantity (of IoT devices connected) and also the risk.”

Read more here.

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