The digitization of healthcare has allowed healthcare organizations to utilize robust technology such as medical devices to help improve both patient care and provider experiences across the entire care continuum. Today, medical devices can track and monitor patient stats, provide diagnostic information, help ensure lifesaving care delivery, and even make recommendations on treatment and clinical decision support, all while communicating directly with healthcare IT systems to ensure more complete and accurate patient medical records.

Staffing has emerged as one of the most pressing challenges for provider systems dealing with the global COVID-19 crisis.

Healthcare systems are desperately increasing staffing capacity to gird for the expected tidal wave of patients suffering from COVID-19. They need doctors, nurses, and other support staff trained to care for acutely ill patients within the proper infectious control guidelines.

As health care organizations search for faster and safer ways to deliver patient care, more technology is emerging to help achieve that. Single sign-on, or SSO, is one of those technologies that is already making its presence felt in the health care space…These stories, recounted by David Ting, the founder and chief technology officer of SSO vendor Imprivata, reveal how password processes can be troublesome.