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It's important to pause and reflect on how far we've come as a team of business-enabling IT professionals since Walden Digital's inception four years ago. Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with “Interface”, Europe's leading CIO magazine, for an in-depth interview. We discussed the latest digital supply chain trends in logistics and healthcare logistics and explored the Digital Transformation happening across the Walden Group and its subsidiaries—Walden Digital, Movianto, ETP, TPI, and Ciblex/Relais Colis. The interview covered our innovative data journey with Databricks/Azure and the unique advantages of having in-house software development capabilities through our own digital subsidiary. The path hasn't always been straightforward, but our commitment to learning, engaging with business leaders, and adopting a "fail fast and agile" mindset has allowed us to enhance our digital capabilities, improve organizational choices, and increase supply chain agility and responsiveness. Looking forward to what’s next. If you’re interested in learning more, feel free to reach out for a virtual coffee. #DigitalTransformation #SupplyChain #Innovation #Leadership #WaldenDigital #Agility

Tomorrow, we kick off the main stage events for Cognizant Discovery Americas 2024, and we have an incredible lineup. The day is packed with insightful panels and discussions with many of our industry-leading clients, thought leaders, and Cognizant experts. I’m excited to be leading a discussion with executives from the financial services industry on rewiring the banking industry for the AI era. Here are some other highlights to keep an eye on: ➡️ A fireside chat between Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora and our CEO Ravi Kumar S focused on wall-to-wall security and our partnership to deliver AI-driven cybersecurity capabilities for enterprises across various industries. ➡️ An exciting conversation on the importance of the human factor in a tech-driven world with bestselling author Adam Grant, Cognizant Board Member Archana Deskus, and Ravi. ➡️ A discussion on preparing for an AI-enabled future with executives from McKinsey, Gilead, AbbVie, and LPL Financial, alongside industry analyst and HFS Research CEO, Phil Fersht. ➡️ A client panel with leaders from Ally and Manulife on modernizing for change in the insurance industry, and a discussion with Blue Shield of California on enhancing efficiency and CX for patients and providers. This is just a snapshot of what we have planned, and we're looking forward to a great couple of days connecting with our clients and partners. Stay tuned for more.   #CognizantDiscovery2024

Here's how to streamline intercompany integrations in Healthcare IT Departments while ensuring data security and efficiency: Service Bus concepts are the key to breaking through integration stalemates. StringBean Technologies offers a cutting-edge data entry front-end solution that empowers users in healthcare facilities to input information seamlessly. Our intuitive UI layer and AI Outlier Detection filters guarantee quick training and accurate results. We place any human who touches your property at the firewall, with no third-party system to hide behind. TG, we have passed every IT survey submitted to date. A big tribute to Richard Chung, our faithful CTO. Learn more about enhancing data management and IT security in healthcare facilities: [Link to the article] #HealthcareIT #DataManagement #ITSecurity #AI #HealthcareFacilities American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) Thank You 👉 Healthcare Facilities Today > Jeffrey Wardon for informing the industry.

"Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) aims to establish and enable a national digital health ecosystem, and build out the underlying digital public infrastructure. Cybersecurity is core to ABDM. The entire health stack is designed on a federated architecture model. Unlike in most other countries, we will have decentralised data storage," Himanshu Burad, OSD to Additional CEO, National Health Authority (NHA), Government of India, speaking at FTI Consulting's consultation on ‘Navigating Cybersecurity Challenges in Healthcare’, which spanned stakeholders from government, the cybersecurity and healthcare ecosystems, insurance, and others.   During the consultation, Jamie Singer, FTI Consulting Senior Managing Director and Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Communications Practice Co-lead, showcased global best practices to respond to a cybersecurity incident in the healthcare sector. She said 67% of healthcare organizations globally suffered a cyberattack in 2023 and the average ransom payment paid in 2023 was $1.54M, almost 10x what it was in 2020.   This was followed by a panel discussion where participants from medical devices industry, hospitals and insurance players talked about the need for regulations and capacity building of various stakeholders to ensure compliance. Rakesh Maheshwari (ex Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology), Vinayak Godse (Data Security Council of India), KPM Das and Anita Kumar (Cisco), Sivani Peesapati (GE HealthCare), Sreekumar Gurujalam (Siemens), Parimal Goel (BD), Praveen Mandi (Infosys), Najam Baig (TATA AIG General Insurance Company Limited), Arvind Sivaramakrishnan CHCIO (Karkinos Healthcare), Payal Chauhan (UnitedHealth Group), Valsa Williams, Amrit Singh Deo, Prasanto Kumar Roy, Rakesh Aulaya, Salonie Chawla, Devanshu Jain, Kerban Billimoria Rajdeo and Pragya Gupta. #Cybersecurity #Healthcare #CriticalInfrastructure #Safetyandsecurity

In the current era of hyperconnectivity, the cyber risks have increased disproportionately. Cybersecurity can't just be layer on top, it has to be a part of core infrastructure. While creating the National Digital Health Ecosystem, ABDM works on the principle of privacy and security by design. #ABDM #DigitalHealth

Today, we are excited to share our collaboration with mdhub (YC S24), a Y-Combinator innovator from Summer '24! mdhub's clinical AI assistant is revolutionizing mental health practices by automating tasks, saving clinicians at least two hours daily, and enabling them to see more patients. To ensure top-notch data privacy and security, mdhub partnered with BD Emerson CPA for a SOC 2 audit and HIPAA reassessment. Our team meticulously verified their privacy policies, data access protocols, and security safeguards. How we helped: ⤵ 🔵 HIPAA Audit/Attestation: Aligned policies with industry benchmarks, confirmed data compliance, and verified security measures. 🔵 SOC 2 Type I Audit: Evaluated control designs to meet applicable Trust Service criteria. Now, mdhub has begun the monitoring window for their SOC 2 Type II audit. Partnering with BD Emerson #CPA has strengthened mdhub's assurance in their compliance and security. And here’s the cherry 🍒 on top: BD Emerson offers exclusive discounts to Y-Combinator companies. Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your data security and compliance standards. Kudos to mdhub for their dedication to privacy and excellence!  Learn more about the engagement from our case study 👉 https://lnkd.in/dKBSgRFw #DataSecurity #Compliance #HIPAA #SOC2 #MentalHealthTech #YCombinator

Important perspective from Larry Ellison and Seema Verma in the WSJ: The world's digital infrastructure relies way too much on manual processes, with real and damaging consequences such as data breaches in the healthcare system. Automation can and will do better. https://lnkd.in/gzWjBYU6

We're now at an inflection point in the #healthplan / #healthinsurance #industry and the #healthcaredelivery system. Three days ago, Senators Warren, Markey, Auchincloss, and thirteen (13) House Members urged the #sec to open an #insidertradinginvestigation into #unitedhealthgroup executives’ stock trading activities. Some observations and take-aways from the attached article: 1) Based on Mr. Witty's testimony, it's apparent that he and #uhg's #corporatelegalcounsel have been preparing for his testimony for several days (if not weeks). It would not be surprising (to learn down-the-road) that external #legalcounsel was also involved in Mr. Witty's preparatory work for participating in the senate and house hearings. 2) Federal legislation is coming. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in both chambers of #congress and who will be defending the industry during committee hearings and eventually debate on the floors of congress and #senate. 3) We're quickly reaching the point of 3 months post breach and #unitedhealth and #optum are still getting a handle on the magnitude and severity of this breach. Per Mr. Witty, he "estimated that the #databreach could affect about one-third of all Americans — which would be more than 100 million people — though he said the number was uncertain." 4) Per Mr. Witty, "Change Healthcare’s footprint was the same as it was before UnitedHealth acquired it in 2022. The company UnitedHealth bought for almost $8 billion ran on #legacytechnology, he said, with some systems 40 years old. “We’ve been working to improve those.” Let # 4 sink in for a moment, 40 year old #technology handling one of our nations most critical components of the #healthcare #ecosystem for #medicalproviders, #hospitals, #physicians, #clinics, #therapists and the list goes on; and let's not forget, this 40 year old technology also let down our most vulnerable: the member/insureds who pay the #premiums, #deductibles and out-of-pocket cost for #healthcareservices that are being rationed more and more everyday. #uhc #databreach #kaiser #healthplanexecutives #hipaa #compliance #pii #unitedhealthcare #bestpractices #leadingpractices #systemsecurity #phi #datasecurity #data #medical #providers #business #management #hr #ceo #coo #cfo #cio #cto #ciso #consulting #managementconsulting #cms #breach #cyberbreach #hhs #doctors #medicalcare #insurance #managedcare #pharma #medicaid #medicare #regulation #darkweb #privateequity #venturecapital #healthcaresystems #aca #hospitalsystems #hcsc #bcbstx #bcbsil #bcbsca #bcbs #carefirst #anthem #elevancehealth #aetna #cvs #hhs #walgreens #oscarhealth #employer #bsw #cigna #bswhp #liability #humana #medicine #conifer #tenethealthcare #bswhp #centene #federallaw #grossnegligence #lawsuit

Why LexisNexis Risk Solutions for Healthcare? Empowering healthcare organizations to navigate the complexities of the industry, LexisNexis Healthcare delivers precise data, nuanced insights, and innovative modeling. We are committed to transforming business operations and improving health outcomes, all while maintaining the highest standards of security and privacy. Join us in harnessing the power of data for good. #HealthcareInnovation #DataDriven #PatientOutcomes #HealthcareData #LexisNexis #DataForGood

Good to see our very own CEO Alastair Goodwin at "Accelerating DORA Compliance" 🚀 The Digital Operational Resilience Act comes into play in January Adoptech are not only helping firms by very simply; 💡 Offering an understanding of if/how they fall into scope 📕 Preparing 💸 Reducing it's cost/time impact on their business 🧠 Providing expert advice But also being invited in as thought-leaders Awesome to see!