Quality and Safety

Truly impactful innovations are those that understand and directly address a problem in care, argues Neil Gomes of Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health.

What patients want from a healthcare provider is surprisingly uncomplicated. They want convenience. They want quality care. And they want empathy at a scary time in their lives.

Deep Dive: The right culture, engagement, time frames and leadership must all be aligned, with EMRAM providing the roadmap to benchmark your organization digitally.

Dolby Laboratories Chief Scientist Poppy Crum describes a future where ubiquitous sensors will anticipate physical and mental health needs.

Deep Dive: The second video of this four-part series on healthcare cybersecurity explores what’s driving cybercriminals to attack healthcare systems, as well as the specific prizes they are targeting.

Dr. Joia Crear-Perry, founder and president of the National Birth Equity Collaborative, breaks down the elevated rates of maternal mortality across socioeconomic and racial lines, and describes how to improve those rates.

The goal is to run dozens of such quality improvement projects each year and to ultimately make randomization standard practice for the continual improvement of existing and new programs.

"And it is coming quickly to a care setting near you," said Cris Ross at Health 2.0 on Tuesday, touting "small AI and big AI" tools that can help revamp IT systems to improve the experience of clinicians and patients alike.

The strength of Infermedica's symptom checker is how it works with organizations' existing software and processes, says Miłosz Wiciński, the company's business development manager.

The prescriptive analytics company will start by helping researchers the Novant Health Institute of Innovation & Artificial Intelligence reduce readmissions for congestive heart failure.