Quality and Safety

I-PASS Patient Safety Institute is helping the academic hospital achieve safer shift changes with game-based training, EHR mnemonics and benchmarking tools in the cloud.

The agency, seeking to ease EHR reporting burdens, will also allow both 2015 and 2014-certified EHRs for 2018. 

The health system, with 22 hospitals, is first in the nation to turn to non-invasive technology.

Report offers advice on how to do it right – the way patients want.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services would receive $5.8 billion in funding, with only $300 million designated for the lead research group on healthcare quality, costs and outcomes.

Focusing on 30 high-performing hospitals, the group will work with anesthesiologists to create new strategies for post-op pain management.

The new risk-sharing project, which seeks to eliminate redundancies and maximize sourcing gains will unfold over eight years.

Two news studies in peer-reviewed journals see positive signs for precision oncology.

The enterprise rollout at Ontario's Mackenzie Health, billed as the first end-to-end implementation north of the border, offers some good perspective on a smooth go-live: planning ahead, proper staffing levels, command centers and more.

The CEO of Medical Group Management Association discusses technology, disparity in the workplace  – and more.