This is Naomi Diaz with the Becker's Digital
Health Podcast.
Here's your daily industry news briefing for today,
January 6th.
1st, in 2025,
health system IT and digital leaders plan to
focus on the common data in cybersecurity
and the novel creative voice AI and inpatient
digital highways.
Here are the digital technologies health systems won't
be able to go without in 2025,
c suite leaders told Becker's.
1st is a quick way to value innovations.
2 is AI and robotic process automation for
patient access.
3 is data.
4 is inpatient digital highways.
5 is low cost wearables embedded with AI
and machine learning.
6 is robust cybersecurity
infrastructure.
7 is technology to improve throughput and capacity.
And 8 is voice AI.
2nd,
Brentwood, Tennessee based Arden Health plans to integrate
18 urgent care clinics recently acquired from NextCare
Urgent Care into its Epic EHR.
The acquisition, finalized January 3rd, includes 6 clinics
in New Mexico and 12 in Oklahoma.
An Ardent spokesperson told Becker's the clinics will
be integrated into the health system's Epic EHR
as part of the onboarding process with a
transition expected to be completed by summer.
Ardent Health first committed to transitioning to the
Epic EHR platform in 2016.
3rd, healthcare organizations are ramping up their cybersecurity
defenses with a growing focus on third party
risk management,
network security, and proactive infrastructure improvements, a January
2nd report from Kloss found.
Between January October, Kloss interviewed 70 healthcare organizations
to explore their cybersecurity priorities,
challenges, vendor partnerships,
and perspectives on AI's role in strengthening cybersecurity
efforts.
Respondents outlined their top cybersecurity investment priorities, which
include third party and external entity risk management,
prevention,
preparedness,
governance policies and regulation,
identity and access management,
incident preparedness,
AI,
improved internal cybersecurity culture, infrastructure,
data loss protection, email security, endpoint security,
ongoing monitoring and detection,
as well as other cybersecurity improvements that were
not listed in the report.
According to the report,
cybersecurity priorities differ based on the size of
the organization.
Larger health care organizations,
especially those with more than 500 beds, often
focus on managing
managing third party risk. In contrast, smaller organizations
are more likely to invest in AI to
boost efficiency.
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