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Osama El-Hassan from the Dubai Health Authority said the only way to achieve sustainability in digital health is to build up the workforce. Companies like Zimam wish to upskill workers and build a community around health information management.  

As more patients receive hospital care at home using digital health devices, Kevin Littlefield, principal for cybersecurity at MITRE, talks about the existing and upcoming guidance on how hospitals can apply privacy and security mitigations within their various implementations.

As cyberattacks become more sophisticated, endpoint protection and staff training are key to preventing breaches, says Renee Broadbent, CIO and information security officer at SoNE Healthcare.

Erik Decker, vice president and CISO at Intermountain Health and chair of the Health Sector Council's Cybersecurity Working Group, discusses the group's collaboration with the U.S. government to support healthcare data security mandates.

Costs for procedures such as mammograms and colonoscopies are as much as 58% higher when performed in HOPD settings.

The move will end Dana-Farber's longstanding relationship with Brigham and Women's Hospital.

More than half of the respondents cited software and technology as one of their top three strategic priorities, a big leap from last year.

The strongest predictors of burnout include workload, census divisions, age, specialties and practice settings.

Dr. Benoit Desjardins, professor at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, discusses ways hackers can access medical records from understaffed healthcare organizations – and how those organizations can best mitigate their cyber risk.

EHR systems rated as being difficult to operate did not perform well in safety tests, which suggests the need to optimize EHRs for ease of use.