The critical importance of information security within healthcare

Brian Kerssemeijer is a practising GP in Bemmel. Together with three colleagues, he runs a well-oiled practice and has been using the Prisma Platform.

Marlène van der Tang is 56 years old and has been a general practitioner for 25 years. Marlène has also been active on Prisma.

Simone Breed is a GP at Antoniusveld Huisartsen, a group practice with 10,500 patients. She practices as a GP for Urogynaecology and she uses Prisma.

Saskia Stitzinger is a GP in Hulst. According to her, digitisation is not a solution to all the problems coming our way, but it certainly offers added value.

How does Marieke Vermeulen-Piepers, GP since 2019 and practice owner in Tiel, use Prisma and what is the added value of the network for her?

Adriaan van de Vreede is 31 years old and a practising GP in Middelburg. He and his colleagues are active users of the consultation platform Prisma.

Liesbeth Verboom (44) is a practising GP in Amersfoort. She enjoys making use of all the digital possibilities available these days, including Prisma.

Caroline Nierkens is a practice holding GP in Hoog-Keppel. The practice is leading the way when it comes to digitalisation, with Prisma, among others.

Tanja Manschot has been a practising GP for 10 years and an enthusiastic user of the consultation network since the early days of Prisma.

Hugo Hardeman is a GP & practice owner and, together with 5 other GPs, takes care of people in the neighbourhood. A colleague introduced Prisma to him.

Combining the ehealth leader with the largest medical messaging application in Europe will break down barriers in care coordination & enhance patient care outcomes.

Pharmacist Nikkie Hosseinnia talks about working digitally and what pharmacists contribute to the healthcare process.

They use Siilo to exchange information with colleagues, organise their association activities and continue their education. 

Around 73,000 healthcare professionals and more than 400 organisations now communicate via the Siilo network.

Siilo for Desktop was built at the request of St Trudo hospital in Flemish Belgium, after the use of Siilo on mobile phones grew significantly in the hospital.

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Digitalisation offers great benefits to the healthcare sector, but it is essential that it truly meets the standards expected within the medical profession.

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With the New Year still crisp and you hopefully rested after a well deserved break, we welcome you back online to Siilo!

Former Managing Director of Parkmobile, Esther van der Meer, recently joined us as our COO.

Project lead Bregje van den Heuvel: ​‘Many colleagues were already using Siilo. The logical question was: how can we use the app even more efficiently?’

With the prevalence of messenger apps in clinical settings, it’s more important than ever to keep patient data safe when communicating.

We have resolved our technical issue! We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience you may have experienced.

Siilo has a fresh update to include delete-for-all functionality, a way to preserve chat threads, and improvements to verification!

We’ve spent the past few months delving deep into our company brand and story.

Explore how you can get most of your group chats with a few examples of how Siilo users are chatting now!

Collaborate with colleagues via voice or video calling on Siilo Messenger and Siilo Web! Find out how we’ve improved calling for when texting just isn’t enough.

Siilo Web offers the same functionality as the Siilo app, but a few unique features increase its utility and security for desktop-based professionals.

German radio station Hessischer Rundfunk featured Siilo’s Sassan Sangsari to discuss how Siilo facilitates efficient communication during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Today on International Nurses Day, we take a moment to reflect on the mission of nurses around the world: to deliver compassion and comfort to their patients.

If you’re an organisation admin on Siilo, member management is easier than ever thanks to updates we’ve made to Siilo Connect.

We’ve been featured in Medisch Contact! Marieke van Twillert writes on how Siilo is making a difference for medical professionals now. Translated to English.

Check out how we’ve made to Siilo Profiles so that users can make the best out of the platform. This post relates specifically to changes made on the web app.

We’re doing our part to keep up-to-date on how to stay healthy when tackling the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. Global situation is still evolving, stay vigilant.

Siilo is headed to Berlin to attend the ​“DMEA – Think Medical! Act Digital!” conference this April. Come join us and find out how we’re shaping healthcare.

We know that getting Siilo in the hands of medical professionals is a game-changer for productivity. A recent article in the JMS shows exactly how it works.

As the decade comes to a close, we wanted to take a moment to appreciate a community that does so much and is spoken about so little: the healthcare community.

5G is on the horizon. We take a look at some of 5G’s promises, the ways it will impact healthcare, and how Siilo is preparing for the new cellular networks.

The Siilo team made its way to Web Summit 2019 along with 70,000+ others. We reflect on why events like this are important for startups like us.

Early on in our medical careers we watched others taking care of patients and do certain procedures. A lot. We all complained that it takes forever to go out there. After…

The NHS has unveiled a plan this month to extensively invest in MedTech ventures which the NHS can use to improve patient care.

By March 2020 the NHS has promised to be ​‘fax free’ and has already banned NHS organizations from buying fax machines. Can you just pull the plug out of the wall and go…

NHS England, NHS Digital, Public Health England and the Department of Health and Social Care have developed a set of guidelines around the use of instant messaging channels…

Here at Siilo we have a purpose. Our team of software devs are going to change the way healthcare teams communicate. We took a look at today’s healthcare system and thought:…

Secure by design thinking would start with the requirement that your system should be properly protected even if the intimate details of its construction are public. The same…

With the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into effect on the 25^th of May this year, we get a lot of enquiries these days from healthcare institutions…

With General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into force in Spring 2018, we explore the legal and practical implications of using mobile messengers in the healthcare…

Since primary care doctors are under such pressure to deliver for a growing and ageing population, they look increasingly to technology to help reduce the burden of work.

Because of security risks, doctors are no longer permitted to use WhatsApp in clinical settings. Healthcare professionals turn to messengers in the first place for their…

WhatsApp secured their messenger – an effort that was started in 2013 with the help of Moxie Marlinspike. Moxie is the founding father of Signal’s OpenWhisperSystems and his…

Strong security is only as strong as the weakest link. So our security policy is based on three main pillars.

Healthcare providers rely on staggering amounts of information to help patients. So in the pre-PDA era, all of that had to be remembered correctly, or you would have to visit…