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Jeffrey Sullivan
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Addressing Shadow AI: An Insider Threat to Data Security

One of the greatest cybersecurity threats to your health system today might not be a sophisticated external bad actor. Instead, it is likely a well-intentioned clinician sitting at a nurse’s station, frustrated by a backlog of paperwork. Driven by a desire to improve patient throughput, they copy and paste unprotected patient health information into a...
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A Sneak Peek Behind the Curtain of Digital Fax Security in Healthcare

Often, efforts to apply digital security standards to healthcare information exchange only exacerbate the digital divide between large organizations and small, under-resourced facilities. That’s because modern frameworks for information sharing in healthcare, like FHIR and HL7, typically are out of reach for organizations that lack financial capacity for advanced data-sharing technologies and are more likely...
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Learning To Love Fax Again, Courtesy Of AI

It’s no secret the healthcare industry hates fax—which many healthcare participants still equate solely with old-school paper fax—but few information sharing technologies can match cloud-based digital fax for its security, speed and ease of use. While other industries have moved on to less secure email and messaging platforms, fax still reigns supreme in healthcare. In...
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How One Health System Bet on the Cloud and Strengthened Its Capacity for Growth

Healthcare IT teams will feel a bigger push to modernize their IT infrastructure in the cloud given the need to manage rising volumes of data and strengthen information exchange, leading analysts believe. At one Georgia health system, the move to the cloud stabilized operations after a supercharged path to growth. It also set the stage...
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Achieving Digital Maturity Doesn’t Mean Leaving Fax Behind

Many experts predicted 2024 would be the year of digital health maturity as companies across industries, like financial services and healthcare, modernized their use of core systems, adapted to AI in all its forms, responded to consumers' desire for digital experiences and more.
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Best Practices for Data Governance in Healthcare

“Data governance” feels like a buzzword. You can imagine a boardroom full of executives nodding sagely while PowerPoint slides flash by, filled with abstract concepts and compliance checkboxes. But strip away the jargon, and data governance is fundamentally about real people. Patients whose medical histories, genetic information, and most vulnerable moments are captured in databases and...
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The Tate Chronicles: Jeffrey Sullivan and Russell Teague

On this episode host Jim Tate recorded live at HIMSS25 with two guests. Jeffrey Sullivan, CTO at Consensus discussing improved data security using an unlikely tool: digital cloud fax. And Russell Teague CISO at Fortified Health Security discussing the cybersecurity program priorities for healthcare orgs this year.
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Closing The Last Mile In Healthcare Data Exchange

So much depends on the ability to access meaningful information about patients at the point of referral, admission, and care – from the ease with which clinicians can pinpoint patients’ needs to clinicians’ impact on quality of care, access to care and health outcomes.