I was watching BBC News last night and several, seemingly unrelated, stories were presented in the manner of mainstream news today – with heavy reliance on the soundbite: “Immigration in the UK is causing a drain on the country’s resources.” “Immigration is being used by unscrupulous employers to drive wages down.” “Forecasters are predicting lower living standards driven in part … Read More
Choosing a Legacy Modernization Partner and Healthcare IT Threats – Morphis In the News
Choosing Your Legacy Modernization Partner So, you have decided the time is right to modernize your legacy systems. Who do you partner with and what criteria should you use to make this selection? Morphis has recently contributed articles to three prestigious publications to help you make the right decision. #1 9 Tips for Choosing a Legacy Modernization Partner Covering risk … Read More
Still Running Legacy Systems? Don’t Join This List!
As technology allows us to do more online, it also leaves us vulnerable to cyberattacks. The internet has evolved since its inception and understanding and monitoring cybercrime as it progresses is critical for every organization’s security. Institutions across all industries are affected by this problem — especially those who have some sort of personal, financial or medical data on their … Read More
Data Breaches in the Healthcare Industry
Large and small companies, banks, other financial organizations, governmental agencies and especially groups in the healthcare industry are all being forced to pay increased attention to cybersecurity. Overseeing cybersecurity threats is becoming more difficult as software systems grow older and are no longer flexible enough to support the needs of modern businesses. This problem is magnified when we are discussing … Read More
Data Breaches in Healthcare: Costly for Providers and Dangerous for Patients
Though credit card breaches and data breaches in retail stores are more likely to make the news, the most common breaches actually happen in the healthcare industry… and that is far scarier than someone receiving your credit card information. Why? Because when a bank or credit card is breached, the data quickly becomes useless once the breach is discovered and … Read More
Out With The Old And…In With Old (The Innovation Challenge)
In the first part of this two-part post, we discussed how Royal Melbourne Hospital’s Pathology department was infected by a new variant of the Qbot malware and responded by upgrading from (out of support) Windows XP to (out of support) Windows 7 (out with the old and…in with the old). I pondered how [intelligent people within] organizations could make such … Read More
Out With The Old And…In With The Old (that and other dirty little secrets)
Two seemingly unconnected blog posts leapt out at me this week and demanded to be read. They also led me back to the world of Simon Sinek and his study of leadership to seek an explanation for some of the craziness outlined in the posts. The first was Windows 7 is not the answer for Melbourne Health – Out with … Read More
Morphis Modernizes MV Sistemas’ Healthcare ERP System
MV is Brazil’s leading provider of healthcare management systems and the second largest healthcare ERP provider globally. Its flagship healthcare management product, SOUL MV, provides comprehensive clinical and administrative functionality to networked or stand-alone health facilities including state health departments, public and private hospitals, emergency facilities, family care centers, health insurance carriers, and many others. Originally architected as a client-server … Read More