Quality and Safety
Quality & Safety
Medicaid expansion in the Affordable Care Act turned Medicaid into a lifelong program for people it was never meant to support, Verma says.
Electronic Health Records
The system instituted care management and clinical decision support tools to reduce readmissions of patients with asthma.
Analytics
Enhanced patient experience earns Santa Clara Valley Medical Center EMRAM Stage 7 from HIMSS Analyt…
The hospital uses its EHR, analytics and associated IT to foster communications between departments, decrease visits and shorten wait times.
Electronic Health Records
While many vendors earned high marks, they all seem to have ‘too many clicks’ in the eyes of their users
Quality & Safety
The hospital deployed an alert system that not only reduces care costs and lengths-of-stay but also saves three lives every month.
Electronic Health Records
CIO Brian Jacobs says the award is the culmination of a decade’s worth of effort by hundreds of Children’s National employees, IT and otherwise.
Electronic Health Records
System factors in the EHR itself – poor integration, suboptimal design and UX, failures of alerts and alarms – were up 8 percent since the last time The Doctors Company did a similar report.
Privacy & Security
Since before 2013, hospitals and other healthcare facilities knew that falls were a serious problem, and massive resources were marshalled to reduce or prevent patient falls.
Electronic Health Records
Interoperability and workflow norms stand in the way, but convincing insurers the tech is worth the extra price tag can be the biggest obstacle.
Electronic Health Records
Several companies are working with policymakers and other vendors to reduce overprescribing.