https://healthtechmagazine.net/ en https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/05/targeting-trust-lessons-stryker-cyberattack-healthcare The cyberattack on medical technology company Stryker in March reveals how cyber conflict is evolving. Endpoints, malware and data breaches dominate threat coverage. But this incident points to a deeper shift: Attackers are increasingly targeting the systems that establish and manage trust itself. This incident shows a broader shift we’re seeing across the threat universe: Identity and the systems that manage it have become the new attack surface. In cases like this, attackers aren’t just targeting individual endpoints; they’re going after the management planes that establish trust across… Thu, 21 May 2026 10:51:12 -0400 Mike Nelson https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/05/targeting-trust-lessons-stryker-cyberattack-healthcare https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/05/centering-nurses-amid-evolving-tech-adoption-healthcare When it’s time for Mayo Clinic to evaluate technology that will support the clinical workforce, features and form factors aren’t the only consideration. “Using technology isn’t the goal,” says Cheristi Cognetta-Rieke, vice chair of enterprise nursing practice transformation at Mayo Clinic. “Transforming nursing practice and elevating patient care is the goal.” Cognetta-Rieke refers to Mayo Clinic’s “for nurses, by nurses” model, which aims to embed frontline clinicians in the process of designing the tools they will ultimately use. That way, she says, “technology can amplify our human… Thu, 21 May 2026 14:54:06 -0400 Brian Eastwood https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/05/centering-nurses-amid-evolving-tech-adoption-healthcare https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/05/qa-advocate-health-cnio-ai-implementation-best-practices-nursing Artificial intelligence is a tool that can support nurses in their workflows, creating efficiencies that give them more time to spend on patient care rather than documentation. However, according to McKinsey research, while most nurses believe AI is at least somewhat helpful in improving care, some are still skeptical about the technology and its place in healthcare. HealthTech spoke with Katie Barr, senior vice president and chief nursing informatics officer at Advocate Health, about how organizations should approach AI implementation for nurses to improve adoption success. She emphasized… Tue, 19 May 2026 14:27:03 -0400 Jordan Scott https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/05/qa-advocate-health-cnio-ai-implementation-best-practices-nursing https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/05/how-are-health-systems-managing-thousands-devices-their-networks With more than 60,000 devices on Main Line Health’s network, the Philadelphia-based health system needed better visibility into its complex environment to protect against potential cyberthreats, including ransomware attacks. CISO Aaron Weismann says that’s why his team methodically rolled out a microsegmentation strategy. One of the key challenges in adoption was getting buy-in from clinical operations. “Anytime you walk into a clinical space and say, ‘I'm going to prevent some of your devices from talking to each other,’ that gets very scary when it comes to potential disruptions to patient… Mon, 18 May 2026 12:55:18 -0400 Brian T. Horowitz https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/05/how-are-health-systems-managing-thousands-devices-their-networks https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/05/time-novel-ideals-rural-health-leaders-share-strategies-amid-budget-constraints As an endocrinologist with Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health, Dr. Dave Newman knows firsthand how important it is to meet patients where they are. For one routine appointment in fall 2025, his patient (a farmer) never left the cab of his combine. “It was the middle of harvest season,” Newman says, “and he was in the field sunup to sundown.” Rather than make the patient travel for hours from his farm to a Sanford clinic in Fargo, N.D., they opted for a virtual visit. “We went over his conditions, I refilled his medications, and it saved him from the stress of worrying about how he was… Thu, 14 May 2026 13:00:01 -0400 Chris Hayhurst https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/05/time-novel-ideals-rural-health-leaders-share-strategies-amid-budget-constraints https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/05/what-health-systems-can-learn-cyberattack-pitt In the most recent season of The Pitt on HBO Max, staff at the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center make bets on why they’re receiving patients diverted from nearby Westbridge Hospital. Bets include flooding, a sinkhole, a power outage and even someone setting off fireworks in the bathroom (the season takes place on July 4). As it turns out, the culprit is something IT leaders are all too familiar with: a ransomware attack. The Pitt is one of the most realistic medical shows on television, and the writers’ decision to include a ransomware attack further adds to that realism. Not only… Wed, 13 May 2026 13:35:09 -0400 Nelson Carreira https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/05/what-health-systems-can-learn-cyberattack-pitt https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/05/how-senior-living-communities-use-data-improve-care-and-operations When leaders and staff at Frasier, a senior living community in Boulder, Colo., want better visibility into their operations, they can now pull up Microsoft Power BI dashboards. They can quickly view resident census data, financial metrics, marketing pipelines, dining statistics, IT help desk trends and more, all aggregated in a Microsoft Azure data lake. Senior IT Director Jeff Puckett led an enterprise architecture initiative that included the data analytics project, which went live in 2025. Puckett joined the 500-resident, 20-acre community in 2017 and has steadily modernized its IT… Tue, 12 May 2026 12:31:30 -0400 Wylie Wong https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/05/how-senior-living-communities-use-data-improve-care-and-operations https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/05/how-manage-virtualization-migration-healthcare Healthcare organizations are migrating to new virtualization platforms because of financial burden and the complexity of today’s infrastructure. Virtualization allows organizations such as health systems to access applications virtually from a single machine while distributing to other computing environments. Components of virtualization include the hypervisor layer, networking, storage, backup, monitoring and identity management.  Virtualization was “low-drama infrastructure” for many years, but now healthcare IT leaders face challenges such as steep price hikes and being forced into… Fri, 08 May 2026 16:15:56 -0400 Brian T. Horowitz https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/05/how-manage-virtualization-migration-healthcare https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/05/docusign-intelligent-agreement-management-brings-clarity-workflows Healthcare organizations manage an extraordinarily high volume of agreements every day, from patient intake forms and consent documents to vendor contracts and clinical research approvals. When those documents are scattered across different systems or tied to paper-based workflows, delays are inevitable. Docusign Intelligent Agreement Management is designed to eliminate that friction by bringing agreements, data and automation together in a single platform powered by artificial intelligence. At its foundation, Docusign’s platform builds on its widely used and well-known electronic-signature… Thu, 07 May 2026 17:03:06 -0400 John Breeden II https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/05/docusign-intelligent-agreement-management-brings-clarity-workflows https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/05/dt-research-dt514la-offers-trusted-bedside-support Point-of-care technology has come a long way since the humble blood glucose meter for patients with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. Nurses and other team members provide bedside care to streamline assessments and diagnostic and treatment protocols. With handheld readers and mobile devices, care teams stay agile and can avoid treatment delays or medication errors. However, it’s often not feasible to provide a comprehensive level of care with smaller screens. Handheld devices work best to assist with documentation and assessments in conjunction with larger devices and monitors. That’s one reason why… Tue, 05 May 2026 11:53:07 -0400 Risa Kerslake https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/05/dt-research-dt514la-offers-trusted-bedside-support