Everyone talks about how healthcare is overwhelmed. That’s an understatement. Frankly, healthcare has been under tremendous stress since well before the pandemic. While IT isn’t the only factor inflating pressure, it’s a major contributor. Applications are decentralized and outdated, the fragmented IT environment has proven unsustainable, and change is necessary for digital transformation. But what exactly does that look like?

Matthew Little, Chief Nurse Information Officer (CNIO) and Associate Chief Nurse at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, gives his view on the latest advances that the NHS has made and why it’s important to fully use the technology that has been invested in, while also innovating and pushing boundaries to make healthcare better.

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Recent changes to the NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT) (DAPB0086:Data Security and Protection Toolkit, published under s250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012) have upgraded recommendations around how remote access to systems and privileged accounts are managed. It now mandates that multifactor authentication (MFA) MUST be enforced on all remote user access to all systems and on all privileged accounts that access externally-hosted systems (for example cloud-hosted or SaaS applications).

Sean Kelly is Chief Medical Officer and head of healthcare strategy at Imprivata – the digital identity company providing simple and secure access for the healthcare industry.

Imprivata enables organisations in over 45 countries to fully manage and secure all enterprise and third-party digital identities by establishing trust between people, technology and information.