Practical Steps to Mitigate Cybersecurity Attacks on Radiation Oncology Practices.

Radiation oncology, as a technologically intensive discipline that requires communication between multiple and diverse computer systems, is vulnerable to cyberattack. Given the enormous amount of the loss of time, energy, and money that results from a cyberattack, it behooves radiation oncologists and their teams to minimize cybersecurity threats to their practices. In this article, we present practical steps that radiation oncologists can take to prevent, prepare for, and respond to a cyberattack.

Inpatient Telehealth Tools to Enhance Communication and Decrease Personal Protective Equipment Consumption during Disaster Situations: A Case Study during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Background: As the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic exerts unprecedented stress on hospitals, health care systems have quickly deployed innovative technology solutions to decrease personal protective equipment (PPE) use and augment patient care capabilities. Telehealth technology use is established in the ambulatory setting, but not yet widely deployed at scale for inpatient care.

Objectives: This article presents and describes our experience with evaluating and implementing inpatient telehealth technologies in a large health care system with the goals of reducing use of PPE while enhancing communication for health care workers and patients.