??Pulse Check: Issue 02
Welcome back to Pulse Check, your go-to source for all things Healthcare. As the summer comes to a close, I think it is important to take a look back at the major events that struck the healthcare world. So, keep reading this issue to dive into what’s new in the healthcare industry…
Going the extra 5,000 miles??
The distance between Rome and Beijing was practically zero on June 7th, 2024, with Professor Zhang Xu successfully performing prostate surgery on a patient in China, from Italy.
This is a significant breakthrough for the healthcare industry, enabling greater care access for the military, rural communities, and disaster victims. These patients often have difficulty receiving the care they need due to geographical barriers that limit them during times of need. So, with the emergence of telesurgery, geographical barriers are eliminated providing higher quality care to individuals who cannot reach the specialists they need in a timely manner.
However, Professor Zhang Xu discusses a major challenge when it comes to telesurgery…and that is latency when it comes to communication. Luckily the communication during Professor Zhang Xu’s surgery was almost real-time with a delay of only 135 milliseconds. However, this might not always be the case when it comes to more rural areas due to the prevalence of connectivity issues, which must be considered before the widespread adoption of telesurgery.
Professor Zhang Xu’s success is an important milestone that is sure to improve care access and act as just the beginning of the emergence of telesurgery worldwide.
Back to the Basics??
Weeks after a ransomware attack, McLaren Health Care confirmed on August 26th that their IT operations had been restored. However, the effects are ongoing while they continue to recover from this breach.
Patients and doctors went back to manual processes during this time, including bringing printed medication lists and lab orders to appointments and handwriting surgical notes. So, now care teams are tasked with inputting all of this data into the electronic health records, which may take weeks to be fully reflected in the system.
This breach underscores the importance of having a business continuity plan because while there was not much that McLaren could have done to avoid these manual processes and their extended recovery times, they are showing initiative when it comes to their cybersecurity practices. After identifying the suspicious activity, the cybersecurity team ensured that all systems were quickly shut down and is continuing to investigate which/if any data was compromised and will reach out directly to patients or employees if they find evidence that their information was stolen.?
This blog touches more on the rising threat of cybercrime in healthcare: https://www.onpage.com/putting-hc3s-cyber-posture-recommendations-into-practice/?
领英推荐
Meme Corner??
With covers, shift changes, and holiday schedules, knowing who’s on-call can be a nightmare…without OnPage that is.
OnPage’s digital on-call scheduler ensures that all schedule changes are updated and reflected in real-time across the entire team’s devices allowing better transparency and eliminating situations like this:
Feature Spotlight?
With our new Microsoft SSO integration, logging into OnPage is now easier and more secure! By leveraging the SAML protocol, you can integrate OnPage with Microsoft Entra, enabling single-click login and eliminating the need to remember multiple passwords.
??Key Benefits:?
Thank you for reading this issue of Pulse Check by Zoe Collins. Comment below what you prefer: This traditional newsletter type of post or last week’s longer-form article with only one subject. Subscribe for more!
Between issues, follow OnPage’s blog for the latest thought leadership content on global healthcare tech advancements and company news.