Quality and Safety
Compliance
The agency released a five-point plan outlining regulatory changes to bolster medical device safety, including requiring manufacturers ensure devices can be updated and patched.
Accountable Care
The New York City-based health system tailored its care pathways to fix inefficiencies and gained back big ROI from the hard work it did with staff workflows and process improvements.
Electronic Health Records
The new Insight Culture of Safety Assessment for Health IT Companies was built to help vendors adhere to principles of safe design, development and use when creating products.
Mobile Health IT
Rice University student developers have designed the application, which could help with some of the gait problems that can affect people with Parkinson's.
Population Health
AI technology is already in use in certain aspects of healthcare, such as diagnostic imaging, but it’s being underutilized in several others.
Analytics
The chief information officer of a world-class health system explains how he leads his team to enable more data-driven and patient-centric care delivery.
Quality & Safety
Healthcare leaders Robert Wachter, David Bates, Leah Binder and Tejal Gandhi take the pulse of how far patient safety has come in recent decades – and point toward the work that lies ahead.
Analytics
Robert Wachter, MD, and healthcare futurist Jeff Goldsmith make a case for addressing physician burnout.
Compliance
Measure Applications Partnership wants better alignment and purpose for the myriad quality measures hospitals, practices and LTPAC sites have to report.
Analytics
The findings underscore financial challenges many health systems are experiencing as the operating room is one of the costliest units to run.