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After recently being acquired, Guthrie Lourdes’ IT leadership began planning a routine and familiar IT infrastructure integration featuring an Epic implementation with an activation event scheduled for October 2024. However, at the beginning of May 2024, Guthrie Lourdes faced a debilitating attack on its IT infrastructure due to the cyberattack on its previous parent company, Ascension which impacted normal operations and patient care. The cyberattack resulted in a complete loss of their EMR. With no working EMR system, the hospital projected significant revenue loss during the downtime, had to keep paper records of patient encounters and even had to shut down outpatient and acute facilities temporarily.

What if implementing ServiceNow and Workday wasn’t an either-or question for healthcare leaders but a both-and? Every healthcare department relies on its own familiar system to accomplish tasks. Yet, without a way to connect these systems, organizations face communication breakdowns, redundant and inaccurate data, and poor end-user experiences.

In this video, join Natalie Tollefson, SPHR and Chris Esper from Optimum Healthcare IT as they sit down with Peter Ford, Senior Director of Facilities and Business Application at Stanford Health Care. The three will talk about the power of combining ServiceNow and Workday.

Over the past couple of years, healthcare organizations have been making significant investments in the world of artificial intelligence (AI). We have seen a number of avenues different organizations are taking with their new AI tool: from interpreting medical images to integrating LLMs into their electronic medical records (EMRs). But before healthcare organizations can truly implement AI, specific security criteria need to be established to keep their data secure.

Our experts here at Optimum Healthcare IT have provided answers to 10 of the most areas of concern for developers and web application security professionals. This valuable ebook will provide your team with the right playbook to help guide your team’s journey into LLMs.

In healthcare, when the topic of EHR test management comes up, you can feel the tension in the room. Anyone who has experienced this process knows it can take months of sorting through spreadsheets, pulling resources, and disrupting operations.

Our host Natalie Tollefson interviewed Connie Burse, IT Testing Coordinator at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (MLH) about MLH’s real-life examples of challenges faced with test management, steps it took to overcome those challenges and three things you can do right now to reduce testing time.

It’s no secret that AI has taken healthcare by storm, but more importantly, health systems have quickly recognized AI’s place in the near future. But that doesn’t mean everyone is sold on this new tool. Rob Summitt, Optimum Healthcare IT’s VP of cloud transformation, explores steps that healthcare organizations can take internally to overcome concerns and mistrust with AI.