healthcare

Across the globe, digitization is taking hold in care delivery. Yet as healthcare providers break new ground with technology, they recognize the critical importance of security and patient privacy. Read the latest Cisco Connected Health newsletter to learn how leading healthcare organizations are ma…

On average, there are 795,000 stroke cases in America every year, and 130,000 of those cases are fatal. Accelerated identification, diagnosis, and treatment by the right experts are key components in winning the war against strokes. With four acute care hospitals and two specialty hospitals known fo…

At the end of 4th grade, 10-year-old Peyton Walton learned that her family was moving 600 miles away. She also learned that she was diagnosed with cancer. As Peyton began her cancer treatment, doctors stressed the importance of Peyton continuing to attend school in order to minimize isolation and de…

Last week’s Cisco Live US was certainly one for the books. During the four-day conference, our healthcare team showcased six solutions that allow healthcare organizations to protect patient privacy and data security by securely managing their networks, improving operational efficiencies and providin…

Cybersecurity provides the foundation for innovation in a modern hospital; it is the underlying capability that enables the safe sharing of information. The free availability of information, where and when it is needed, is a powerful force for enabling new, more effective and efficient models of car…

Cisco Live US is just days away, and we’re ready to show our customers, partners and colleagues the impact of Cisco technology in the healthcare industry. Whether you’re attending Cisco Live US (CLUS) for networking, continuing education or technology inspiration, there’s certainly something for eve…

One of the major paradoxes in healthcare is that, despite broad recognition that relentless cost, quality and equity pressures are dominant drivers for significant change, there remains only slow progress towards real innovation in care delivery. Many reflect that the risk-averse nature of healthcar…

Cisco Cloud held our first Blab session yesterday. We were so inspired by the Red Hat documenatry, The Open Patient: Healing through sharing, that we wanted to continue the dialogue about open data and healthcare. Our goal was to touch on the tech industry’s role in open source and how it can…

Dandolo Partners has just released a new report looking at the contribution of information technology to innovation and digitization in Australian hospitals. The report is a result of discussions with a range of key hospital stakeholders (hospital executives and board members, government representat…