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Quality & Safety

Electronic Health Records
By Mike Miliard | 01:02 pm | April 12, 2018
The new Insight Culture of Safety Assessment for Health IT Companies was built to help vendors adhere to principles of safe design, development and use when creating products.
Mobile Health IT
By Mike Miliard | 10:49 am | April 11, 2018
Rice University student developers have designed the application, which could help with some of the gait problems that can affect people with Parkinson's.
Population Health
By Jeff Lagasse | 01:31 pm | April 09, 2018
AI technology is already in use in certain aspects of healthcare, such as diagnostic imaging, but it’s being underutilized in several others.
Analytics
By Mike Miliard | 07:54 am | April 06, 2018
The chief information officer of a world-class health system explains how he leads his team to enable more data-driven and patient-centric care delivery.
Quality & Safety
By Bernie Monegain | 07:09 am | April 06, 2018
Healthcare leaders Robert Wachter, David Bates, Leah Binder and Tejal Gandhi take the pulse of how far patient safety has come in recent decades – and point toward the work that lies ahead.
Analytics
By Bernie Monegain | 01:40 pm | April 02, 2018
Robert Wachter, MD, and healthcare futurist Jeff Goldsmith make a case for addressing physician burnout.
Compliance
By Mike Miliard | 02:37 pm | March 30, 2018
Measure Applications Partnership wants better alignment and purpose for the myriad quality measures hospitals, practices and LTPAC sites have to report.
Analytics
By Jeff Lagasse | 05:11 pm | March 28, 2018
The findings underscore financial challenges many health systems are experiencing as the operating room is one of the costliest units to run.
Analytics
By Bernie Monegain | 02:39 pm | March 28, 2018
Obama-era officials David Blumenthal and Aneesh Chopra say yes.
Electronic Health Records
By Jeff Lagasse | 04:04 pm | March 27, 2018
New research found that software problems caused harm to a small percentage of patients in a test but the authors said the findings are likely below what a national study would uncover.