Healthcare organisations, including the Mayo Clinic and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, could significantly improve patient care, reduce costs and optimise workflows through increased digital visibility, enabled by technologies such as RFID and 2D barcodes, according to health executives. Traditional IT systems and manual processes are inadequate for anticipating patient needs, controlling costs or enabling inventory management, whereas automated medication management and predictive analytics could provide new therapies and improve patient safety.

HSCC CWG urges halting NPRM, calls for joint cybersecurity policy reform to boost healthcare resilience
The Cybersecurity Working Group (CWG) within the U.S. Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) has called on the country’s federal administration to work