Quality & Safety

While many vendors earned high marks, they all seem to have ‘too many clicks’ in the eyes of their users

The hospital deployed an alert system that not only reduces care costs and lengths-of-stay but also saves three lives every month.

CIO Brian Jacobs says the award is the culmination of a decade’s worth of effort by hundreds of Children’s National employees, IT and otherwise. 

System factors in the EHR itself – poor integration, suboptimal design and UX, failures of alerts and alarms – were up 8 percent since the last time The Doctors Company did a similar report.

Since before 2013, hospitals and other healthcare facilities knew that falls were a serious problem, and massive resources were marshalled to reduce or prevent patient falls.

Interoperability and workflow norms stand in the way, but convincing insurers the tech is worth the extra price tag can be the biggest obstacle.

Several companies are working with policymakers and other vendors to reduce overprescribing.

The funding for the new Lorenzo digital exemplar programme will come out of the Department of Health’s 2013 agreement with CSC, now DXC Technology follwing the 2016 merger with the Enterprise Services portfolio of Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

At the same time, Regenstrief has launched a five-year effort that it hopes can help solve the problem.

The PCORI-funded study will compare the effectiveness of three approaches to reducing use of the painkillers.