Healthcare

A few years ago, I spent a week in the hospital after having surgery. As I recovered, the days fell into a predictable routine: Wake up, find the phone and flimsy, stained menu. Call the number. Wait on hold. Give my order for breakfast. Wait an hour and a half for it to be delivered. Switch on the…

Everyday, hackers and cybercriminals are infiltrating networks. And they are especially interested in healthcare. That’s because stolen medical records are profitable, selling up to 10 times more than credit card numbers on the black market. But even more lucrative than identity theft is a ransomwar…

There’s never been a better time to reimagine healthcare. Today, healthcare organizations are leveraging technology to connect people, processes, data and things while maintaining security and patient privacy. Read this quarter’s Connected Health newsletter to learn how you can extend the delivery o…

One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. See how digitizing the network connects multiple experts to the patient securely for efficient diagnoses. For most women, it all starts with a call from their doctor that something was abnormal in their routine mammogram. The…

The Digital Hospital Design group (Health Informatics Society of Australia) held an expanded roundtable discussion as part of the HIC 2016 conference.  The focus of the discussion was around three large hospital innovation projects in Australia and the common lessons that could be learned on the dri…

Is your healthcare organization planning to make a digital transformation?  Are you wondering what this means and what impact it might have on your established processes?  At Cisco, digitization means connecting people and things; and making sense of the data in a meaningful and secure way.  Using t…

Our lives demand digital engagement. In a world where almost any experience can be delivered in an instant, real-time information and access is now an expectation, especially in the healthcare industry. I’ve been studying the challenges and opportunities of virtual care over the last seven years, an…

National Health IT Week (September 26-30) is a collaborative forum that brings together key healthcare constituents to advance health through the best use of information technology (IT).  Cisco is one of more than 400 healthcare stakeholders expressing the benefits that health information technology…

Studies show that up to 15% of patients may fall one or more times during their hospital stay – with some incurring a serious injury. Traditionally, 1/1 patient sitters have been used to help prevent falls and alleviate the risk of patient roaming.  While this is a viable, albeit costly, solution, i…