Quality and Safety

This week's top stories include use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine being halted due to rare, severe reactions and the Mayo Clinic launching a platform that delivers advanced, AI-powered clinical decision support through remote monitoring.

Officials told members of Congress this week that the agency will not start go-live activities in Columbus before sharing the results of a review.

Tift Regional Medical Center aims to use the technology to save lives and significantly reduce costs.

The CMIO discusses a safety initiative he devised that integrated NLP with EHR work queues – helping review and track clinical notes to ensure radiology reports are capturing incidental findings that could impact patient outcomes.

The operation appears to have often taken place without computer owners' knowledge.

Harmony Healthcare IT VP Jim Hammer offers advice to healthcare provider organizations seeking to consolidate systems and data, and comply with the Cures Act.

The development of PennOpen Pass, a symptom tracker and exposure alert system, offers a lesson on how challenging factors can focus the mind, enabling development of new tools that meet communities' needs.

Rahul Sharma, CEO of HSBlox, a social determinants of health-platform company, walks through the obstacles to healthcare fully leveraging SDOH and potential solutions.

Dr. Nishit S. Patel, chief medical informatics officer at the hospital, discusses improving communication between hospital physicians and docs at other healthcare facilities in the community.

Experts caution that the speed and scope of mobile COVID-19 vaccination efforts in ad hoc settings could present cybercriminals with new opportunities for data theft.