healthcare

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…

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…

There’s never been a better time to reimagine the future, and at Gartner’s annual Symposium/ITxpo, we’ll be doing just that. The ITxpo, which will take place from October 16th-20th in Orlando, is a gathering of more than 8,500 senior IT leaders and 3,000 CIOs. The goal of the symposium is to prepare…

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…

When Callie was ten years old, she was diagnosed with leukemia. Then, after two years of chemotherapy and three years of remission, Callie relapsed when she was fifteen. To help Callie beat cancer, a bone marrow transplant was needed. However, due to the risk of exposure to germs post-transplant, Ca…

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…

The healthcare system continues to rapidly evolve, but it is not just healthcare organizations, hospitals, and private physician practices that are impacted.  Private and public payers must also adapt quickly to ensure that they manage funding gaps for providers while offering the best possible cust…