Quality and Safety
Analytics
Obama-era officials David Blumenthal and Aneesh Chopra say yes.
Electronic Health Records
New research found that software problems caused harm to a small percentage of patients in a test but the authors said the findings are likely below what a national study would uncover.
Electronic Health Records
Phoenix Children’s CIO David Higginson and Allscripts CEO Paul Black discuss why patient safety innovation demands attention to human factors.
Quality & Safety
The platform gives providers patient data to earn incentives from risk-based contracts.
Revenue Cycle
The Partnership for Artificial Intelligence and Automation in Healthcare aims to foster a better understanding of how AI can improve care access and quality while also lowering costs.
Quality & Safety
Partners HealthCare, Triad Healthcare undertake separate initiatives focused on reducing costs with by delivering notifications to clinicians about patients not complying with treatment regimens.
Accountable Care
NCQA says the physician group earned the Patient-Centered Medical Home designation for coordinated care and evidence-based medicine.
Interoperability
The group says privacy can still be maintained while giving care providers secure access to relevant substance abuse data and calls on Congress to allow HHS to pursue patient ID strategies.
Revenue Cycle
A two-phase launch starts in June with physicians getting a "wallet" through which Arizona Care Network will distribute its provider rewards and incentives via blockchain.
Analytics
Chief Information Officer Jonathan Shoemaker offers a glimpse inside the health system’s innovative arrangements.