Last week, the FDA issued guidance to improve cybersecurity efforts in healthcare, warning that computer viruses could “affect how a medical device operates” and potentially expose personal health information. The memo provides general recommendations to both medical device manufacturers and healthcare facilities about how to defend against malware and other threats.
The FDA has issued an alert on protecting medical devices from malware and cyber-threats. The Department of Homeland Security delivered a similar warning. With malware capable of impacting hospital systems and implantable devices in danger of being hacked, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a "safety communication" to warn hospitals and medical device manufacturers about cyber-threats.
St Helens & Knowsley Health Informatics Service (StHK HIS) supports many NHS organisations including two acute teaching hospitals, 85 GP surgeries and a number of community and mental healthcare providers, with a user base of over 14,000 individuals.
Early this week, we announced that KLAS has once again ranked Imprivata at the leader in the single sign-on category. While Imprivata has received a number of additional awards and industry recognition, the KLAS rankings are particularly important because they reflect the voice of the customer.
Literally.
Bruce Hall, CIO of Augusta Health, explains how Imprivata OneSign has helped his hospital achieve a 75% utilization rate of CPOE for all inpatient orders. Care givers describe OneSign as a reliable, essential tool allowing them to optimize their workflows.
Bruce Hall, CIO of Augusta Health, describes how his organization is leveraging electronic documentation via Dragon voice dictation technologies. Imprivata OneSign®'s integration with Augusta's Citrix XenDesktop infrastructure provides caregivers with fast, secure, roaming access to their personal Dragon voice recognition sessions at thin client workstations throughout the facility.
Bruce Hall, CIO of Augusta Health, describes and quantifies his successful organizational rollout of thin client virtualization technology partnered with Imprivata OneSign® to realize significant cost savings and overhead reduction. Learn about the benefits of using OneSign with Citrix XenDesktop VDA from both systems engineering and end user perspectives.
Learn how Imprivata OneSign helps Augusta Health increase care providers' efficiency while improving the protection of patients' confidential information. Bruce Hall, CIO of Augusta Health, explains how OneSign was quickly integrated with existing hospital IT systems, and clinicians describe the time savings and convenience they've experienced by using OneSign's Single Sign On and Authentication Management capabilities.
While the healthcare systems may differ considerably between U.S. and Canada, healthcare providers in both countries face the same challenges when it comes to simplifying access to clinical systems and patient information.