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Quality and Safety

By Bill Siwicki | 01:39 pm | January 25, 2019
Urgent care provider PromptMD messages patients as they head out the door to gain fresh perspectives on care – it so far has a 36.8% response rate.
By Mike Miliard | 03:34 pm | January 24, 2019
A new report from the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy explores some of the policy changes that should be made to enable safer and more effective deployment of artificial intelligence in healthcare.
By Bill Siwicki | 03:54 pm | January 22, 2019
The theme is how health IT community stakeholders can take advantage of collaboration opportunities with 11 key federal agencies.
By Mike Miliard | 12:38 pm | January 16, 2019
The health system takes a practical approach, building analytics dashboards for nurses to enable proactive quality improvement.
By Benjamin Harris | 11:21 am | January 16, 2019
As machine learning rapidly expands into healthcare, the ways it "learns" may be at odds with clinical outcomes unless carefully controlled for, a new study shows.
By Mike Miliard | 10:18 am | January 14, 2019
The health system's Physician Services Group worked with IT leadership to help aggregate EHR prescribing data and make it available to its providers.
By Bill Siwicki | 01:29 pm | January 11, 2019
California Correctional Health Care Services takes home the 2018 Davies Award of Excellence Community for its work using IT to reduce hospitalizations for high-risk patients.
By Bill Siwicki | 02:02 pm | January 10, 2019
The Gary and Mary West Emergency Department is designed specially for geriatric patients who may be fragile and confused upon entering an ER.
By Bill Siwicki | 01:41 pm | January 10, 2019
Digital Sample Manager leverages distributed ledger technology to bring improved visibility, transparency and tracking to the chain of custody in clinical trials.
By Mike Miliard | 04:59 pm | January 08, 2019
The tool will combine Experian's patient ID management technology with Change's nationwide Intelligent Healthcare Network.