Damian Chung, business information officer at Santa Clara, Calif.-based Netskope, a computer security platform, providing insight for healthcare IT leaders about cloud security. “The need to become more efficient will drive digital transformation and the push to the cloud, but it’s important to think about that before you make that push,” Mr. Chung told VentureBeat. He also recommends ensuring that your data is secure by knowing who is supposed to have access to it and getting your cloud service provider to sign a business associate agreement.

Source: Becker’s Hospitalreview

Pullman (Washington) Regional Hospital has decided to engage with Providence to adopt Epic’s EHR system for the hospital and its clinic network. According to the report, the hospital intends to use the Epic system in order to achieve the ideal of “one patient, one record,” in which all healthcare information is kept in one secure location. “The vision for a single electronic medical record is patient-focused care,” Scott Adams, Pullman Regional Hospital CEO, told Big Country News.

Source: Becker’s Hospitalreview

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority will increase funding for its ongoing relationship with Cue Health, a healthcare technology firm based in San Diego, to develop an omicron-genotyping COVID-19 test. “An omicron-specific test will assist clinicians in providing patients better treatment options and containment strategies at the time of a positive diagnosis,” Cue CEO Ayub Khattak said in the press release. The test will complement the already existing Cue molecular COVID-19 test and will be compatible with the Cue Health Monitoring System and the Cue Health Mobile Application.

Source: Becker’s Hospitalreview