Quality and Safety

The Kirklin Clinic of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, which sees 50,000 patients a year, went from a not-so-helpful Excel sheet to efficient, IT-driven processes.

Julia Pietsch, senior manager of digital health for Germany Trade & Invest, says the legislation will encourage companies to develop apps that can enter standard care and present greater opportunities for digital health innovation.

The data is said to include patient information release forms, driver's license copies and Social Security numbers, as first reported by BleepingComputer.

A German woman died after Düsseldorf University Clinic's servers were encrypted, which necessitated that she be relocated to a hospital 20 miles away.

We must use technology to improve healthcare for the whole world, rather than just the richest 10%, according to Bogi Eliasen, director of health at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies.

Elective but necessary surgeries were banned for a time. To properly catch up, Phoenix Children’s Hospital built a visually informative, interactive, actionable dashboard using Microsoft’s Power BI software.

A new study from SecurityScorecard and DarkOwl sees increased risk across application and endpoint security, IP reputation, patching cadence and network security.

Theo Sergiou, a patient speaker and activist, says that although progress has been made in terms of empowering patients at an organizational level, there is room for improvement at an institutional level.

Ran Balicer, chief innovation officer at Clalit Health Services in Israel, says innovative services have been implemented on a patient population level, based on data to identify potential issues to prevent disease.

Digital health futurist Shafi Ahmed says COVID-19 has shown us that users across the globe are now the "change makers" in ensuring that healthcare delivery is more equitable and accessible.