Network Infrastructure

As apps and devices become more ubiquitous, complex and bandwidth-intensive, health systems need a strategy to manage the quality and integrity of their network infrastructures.

The response of the non-acute parts of the Italian healthcare system was the focus of a recent webinar hosted by HIMSS.

An expert in the systems that make up a smart building gives healthcare CIOs and CISOs a lay of the land.

As a result of COVID-19, the UK has turned decisively to the tech sector to provide them with health solutions. But some places were more prepared than others. In the recent techUK webinar, ‘COVID-19: How Yorkshire’s health tech cluster is responding’, local experts discussed how the already strong integration of digital health tools benefited the ease and speed of the region’s pandemic response.

Rapid Supplier Connect is designed to help health systems and government agencies identify and onboard alternative vendors when certain supplies and PPE are in shortage.

All over the world, 5G networks are on the brink of rollout, and some think that it is healthcare where most benefits can be expected. But is this really the case? Or are we only hyping technology instead of healthcare once again?

A proposal: Create a Federal Reserve-type structure for supply chain management of protective equipment, powered by distributed ledger technology.

Ad hoc COVID-19 medical centers have a unique set of vulnerabilities: They're remote, they sit outside of a defense-in-depth architecture and the very nature of their purpose – care in a time of crisis – means security is a lower priority.

The COVID-19 pandemic has catalysed the uptake of digital health solutions in a way not hitherto experienced by the sector.

And that's not counting more than 240 million daily spam messages launched at Gmail users that try to capitalize on the coronavirus crisis.