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At the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum on Thursday, leaders from the Health Sector Coordinating Council offered advice for a collaborative layered defense to help health systems bolster responsiveness and stabilize their security postures.

It is now the second APAC hospital presently validated at this stage.

Christine Antorini, former minister of education for Denmark, believes that creating opportunities for older professionals to choose nursing careers can mitigate staffing challenges and diversify the nursing population.

With automation, turnaround times are now 40-45 days – way down from 90-120, previously. And before the tools were in place, the team was credentialing eight applicants per month – now that number is 35.

The electronic health record vendor group was founded two decades ago with a bold premise: competitors working collaboratively to identify issues related to software development and functionality for EHRs and to further the initiatives laid out by HHS.

Healthcare operates with the understanding that no system is impenetrable, but must improve incident response practices by finding new ways to stay operational after network attacks, says one panelist at the upcoming HIMSS Cybersecurity Forum.

Also, the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care is looking for a chief digital information officer.

Also, AIIMS Delhi is the latest to open a training centre featuring Intuitive's RAS system in India.

Physician and nurse schedules often change due to shift swaps, vacations and PTO requests. And in a fast-paced healthcare environment, it’s difficult to keep up with these changes manually or to enter them across disparate systems, increasing the chance of payroll errors.

When manual documentation or other antiquated measures are used for provider on-call scheduling, staff time is wasted on frequent schedule revisions.