Healthcare

It’s an old trope in horror movies: “The call is coming from inside the house!” For healthcare professionals, there’s a similar tale that’s almost as scary — and unfortunately, real. A recent analysis found that healthcare is the only industry in which insider threats (…

Cisco Live was a whirlwind of a week. We had a lot planned in the World of Solutions and for our healthcare session on measuring your hospital’s infrastructure capabilities. But those weren’t the only healthcare highlights this year. The keynote kicked off with an impactful healthcare story. Childr…

Whether you’re a clinician or an executive, the healthcare workforce experience can be equal parts rewarding and challenging. There are changing regulations. A never-ending stream of patients with time-sensitive needs. The pressure to increase revenue and provide differentiated services. And,…

Get ready, Orlando. In less than one week, Cisco customers and partners will be heating things up! Cisco Live (June 10th-14th at the Orange County Convention Center) brings together visionary thought leaders in IT and business and Cisco executives, more than 1,000 educational sessions, Cisco’s top p…

The scene: My doctor’s office, late morning, the exam room. I watch the minutes tick by as I sit and wait, drumming my fingers on the table and trying not to think about my overwhelming to-do list for the day. Mere minutes before, things seemed to be going smoothly. Appointments were running o…

Just think of the volume of healthcare data being collected, stored, accessed, and used to make medical decisions every day. It’s generated by IoT medical devices, clinical workstations, and clinicians inputting information into electronic health records (EHRs). Add in communications amongst doctors…

It’s easy to get excited (and maybe a little nervous) about artificial intelligence (AI). In the simplest sense, AI is an advanced capability of machines to learn from what it experiences and make inferences from data – similar to how a brain processes information[1]. It’s a big shift from healthcar…

Healthcare has evolved beyond business as usual. The people who touch healthcare —patients, family members, clinicians, administrators, and IT—expect more than they used to. They are demanding increasingly sophisticated digital interactions, including remote consultations, ubiquitous connectivity, n…

Thomas Yaw Berko rides an old bicycle 30km each way to reach some of the communities he works in as a volunteer health worker in southern Ghana. For the 7,000 people in the district he serves, early detection and diagnosis can mean the difference between an infection that can be treated in the home…