Overview
Healthcare IT is a dynamic, fast-growing, ever-changing industry. Healthcare IT professionals need to evaluate solutions based on their abilities to meet clinical and compliance requirements, keep costs down, and, most importantly – benefit patients.
The ‘hot topics’ section provides context and insight into some of the important problems that the healthcare industry is facing today. These problems include:
- Cybersecurity threats
- An epidemic of prescription drug abuse
- A deluge of restrictive passwords, tightening regulations, and old-fashioned computer systems
- A lagging, old-fashioned communications system
- Patient misidentification
Imprivata provides solutions-focused coverage of these issues:
- The impacts of cyber threats can be prevented by securing legacy systems, including adding strong, multifactor authentication
- The drug abuse epidemic can, and should, be addressed by introducing effective systems for electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS)
- Aging IT infrastructures can be revolutionized and replaced by desktop virtualization
- Inefficient communication problems can be eradicated by modern, secure messaging systems
- Patients can be accurately identified with biometric systems, leading to better patient outcomes
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