Health IT

Following its 2018 merger, Bon Secours Mercy Health faced a fragmented patient monitoring environment, with inconsistent technologies, networks and clinical workflows across facilities. Through a 10-year collaboration with Philips, the health system is building a standardized enterprise monitoring platform across…

Adding more ORs, beds, units and staff is no longer a practical way to improve performance. With reimbursement constraints, rising demand and ongoing staffing shortages, hospitals and health systems have to get more from the capacity they already have. A…

Up to 43% of telemetry use in non-ICU units may lack a clear clinical indication. Yet many health systems still lack an enterprise view of how monitoring is being used, whether orders and device activity align, how long telemetry continues,…

Each minute an acute ischemic stroke goes untreated destroys roughly 1.9 million neurons. Yet door-to-needle times — the interval from a patient’s emergency department arrival to the clot-dissolving medication — still vary between hospitals, between facilities in one health system,…

Health systems and physicians largely agree on where digital health should take healthcare. New research shows they often part ways on how to get there. A survey of 100 health system executives and 233 physicians found executives tend to judge…

Healthcare security teams already collect signals from across their systems. The challenge is connecting thousands of alerts quickly enough to act. That urgency is growing. The average healthcare data breach costs $7.42 million, according to IBM, while attackers are using…

Provider organizations have the budget, the roadmap and the confidence. Scaling is still where initiatives break down. Digital transformation spending is climbing across the industry, and 92% of executives expect measurable ROI within 24 months. But asked to name the…

Enterprise server prices are up 8-5%, RAM-heavy builds are up 15-25%, and SSD lead times now run three to six months. That repricing has landed in the middle of a planning cycle already complicated by AI. Next-generation GPU racks draw…

When a healthcare ERP program struggles, the platform is rarely the problem. More often, the risk traces back to organizational decisions no one resolved before the work began. Those unresolved decisions don’t go away. They resurface later as redesign, testing…

Health systems process enormous volumes of protected health information every day, which makes every facility a high-value target. Most IT teams already treat encryption as a baseline defense. Fewer can prove the encryption they rely on actually works as promised.…