Quality and Safety

Thrive, which develops tools to incorporating earlier cancer detection into routine clinical workflows, will now gain access to five years of BCBS claims data to help innovate its approaches.

The hospital developed the system that gathers data from the EHR, runs it through artificial intelligence, and delivers real-time warnings to clinicians.

Claus Duedal Pedersen, project manager at Odense University Hospital in Denmark, says operational and clinical outcomes have been improved considerably with the effective use of technology.

The Delaware health system and the device maker will collaborate on a series of tech-focused value-based care initiatives to boost patient outcomes and safety while lowering costs.

Hahn previously served as the chief medical executive at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, a post he has held since 2018.

Drew Glaser, postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Davis, discusses her research using microfluidics technology to simulate conditions that occur in space.

During its two years of implementation at the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation, the PARADE technology has screened more than 87,000 patients, with 8,731 high-risk patients identified.

Jörg Studzinski, with HIMSS Analytics, and Jochen Messemer, with McKinsey & Company, discuss HIMSS European eHealth Survey findings, which include telemedicine's growing importance and why the Nordics and Dutch are digital health role models.

As the role of the CISO evolves, so too does the threat landscape, the infrastructure that needs safeguarding and the policy imperatives shaping the mission of data protection.

Zelia Worman, support scientist at the Translational Research Institute for Space Health, shares how the science community evaluates the risks of space travel.