Cisco Customer Experience Healthcare Practice helps customers leverage the use of Cisco technology to increase business value, remove burdens and move healthcare forward faster. Health systems face… Read more on Cisco Blogs ..read more

The future of healthcare is coming into focus! Now more than ever, we believe that technology is a critical enabler to reinventing our care delivery model.  We have an opportunity to bring accessible … Read more on Cisco Blogs ..read more

The huge revenue opportunity stemming from recent success of GLP-1 drugs is not just for the pharmaceutical companies. Is your healthcare organization poised to capture the patient care opportunity… Read more on Cisco Blogs ..read more

I hold daily status meetings with various groups within our technology team, and the questions almost always drifts to: “What’s today’s challenge?”  Sometimes that challenge might be, “We can’t print … Read more on Cisco Blogs ..read more

When managing cybersecurity risk, healthcare has always had higher stakes. When a healthcare organization experiences a cyber attack, it’s about more than just money or reputation – it can be life or … Read more on Cisco Blogs ..read more

Telephony is a foundational capability for any healthcare organization. And while the primary purpose of telephony hasn’t changed in more than 100 years, the ways in which we enhance the connection h… Read more on Cisco Blogs ..read more

Before embarking on a digital transformation, El Camino Health, a Northern California health system, wanted to ensure it had a proper foundation to fully support new digital health solutions. The… Read more on Cisco Blogs ..read more

For most cybersecurity professionals, one of the best ways to demonstrate success and return on technology investment is for nothing to happen. That is to say, there have been no security breaches, no phishing scams, no malware infections to network-connected devices and no systemwide outages.   But for Grand River Hospital and St. Mary’s Hospital Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Shival Seth, it was important to show that something had indeed happened. The organization’s cybersecurity program had met or exceeded industry benchmarks. The investment in cybersecurity technology was worki ..read more

There is a critical shortage of clinical and non-clinical medical staff globally. A particular danger to healthcare stability is the shortage of nurses, which continues to intensify. Ontario alone projects a shortage of 33,000 nurses and personal support workers by 2028. We are in the midst of a global health emergency, and technology can help. One frequently mentioned reason for the nursing shortage is burnout — a problem that feeds itself. When exasperated nurses leave their positions, it puts an increasing burden on the remaining nurses. Those who remain experience even greater feelings of ..read more

Cisco recently hosted its first Smart Healthcare Summit in Singapore, involving experts from the Australian and Asian health and higher education sectors. While the challenges facing healthcare systems are common across the region, the summit revealed approaches vary between countries due to regulations, funding, differences in organizational culture, innovation capability and technology debt. The summit provided a forum for experts to present and share insights and perspectives on the major challenges, with a large focus on the important role of technology innovation and need for greater coll ..read more