Strategic Planning

The merger remains the right partnership to best preserve BCBSLA as a vibrant, local company into the future, Blue Cross says.

Ali Youssef, a cybersecurity director at Henry Ford Health, says specialized tools can detect and limit attacks before they spread, but health systems should take the approach of assuming that bad actors are already on their network to be able to react quickly.  

Advocate, Hackensack Meridian, Intermountain, Mass General Brigham, Memorial Hermann among those in National Independent Provider Ecosystem.

Nicholas Bunger, data engineer at Balgrist University Hospital, said the five-year journey to EMRAM Stage 6 status has resulted in more efficient operations and has enabled better reactivity among clinical experts.

EPISTORM is expected to give hospitals two weeks advance notice of inpatient numbers, says Alessandro Vespignan of Northeastern.

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.

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