Quality and Safety
KLAS report shows that while Cerner’s analytics is easy to turn on, Epic’s can require a more cumbersome installation.
Electronic Health Records
By integrating the Cleveland Clinic spinoff NeuroLogix into the system, Cerner hopes to better track neurological injuries.
New grants seek to explore patient-reported data, tech-enabled quality improvement.
Hospitals, doctors’ practices, government, insurers, and healthcare IT companies could all be affected, Kalorama says.
The agency scored higher on six of nine patient safety indicators, but still needs to work on behavioral health and patient experience, a JAMA Internal Medicine report finds.
Initiative expected to give emerging physicians greater comfort with electronic health record workflows.
Annals of Surgery found death rate decline in South Carolina in hospitals that chose to participate in the program.
Emergency teams can connect via DirectTrust, Carequality, FHIR and more.
The agency says St. Jude Medical continued to ship faulty defibrillators despite issues with rapid battery depletion.
CMS initiative aims to boost outcomes, reduce cost and find innovative ways to deliver care to underserved populations.