Quality and Safety

COVID-19 has forced medical practices to find new ways to function efficiently. Watch the first video in a series to learn how athenahealth's tools help healthcare pros manage their work.

Coral Gables Hospital has survived major drug shortages, kept tight tabs on inventory, and helped patients and staff stay safe from coronavirus infection.

The tool, developed by Lumio Medical, is a hybrid AI decision-support system trained on data from more than 10,000 patients.

With criminals taking advantage of the COVID-19 crisis, security experts show how health systems can respond to a cyber crisis at the same time.

Interdisciplinary care, when delivered in real time via telemedicine, helped all team members share their knowledge – a big improvement over delivering that expertise separately.

Not only is it important to design innovation into care ecosystems, but we must be able to ensure sustained adoption, says David Champeaux, chief growth officer at Cherish Health and a member of the HIMSS UK Advisory Council.

With patient care virtualization in urgent need, Roche is supporting the sector using digital technology, says Darine Ghanem, the company's global head of personalized healthcare and patient access, global medical affairs.

It takes roughly seven patients presenting after an abnormal pulse alert to establish one clinically actionable cardiovascular diagnosis, according to the researchers' chart review.  

Throughout the pandemic, the facility has outfitted staff with voice-activated comm badges that keep staff in a room to a minimum and reduce the need to change personal protective equipment.

CHSPSC, a Tennessee-based management company that provides IT and services to providers indirectly owned by Community Health Systems, agreed this week to settle for potential HIPAA violations.