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Quality and Safety

By Mike Miliard | 04:22 pm | April 25, 2017
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 Bernie Monegain | 11:49 am | April 24, 2017
By integrating the Cleveland Clinic spinoff NeuroLogix into the system, Cerner hopes to better track neurological injuries.
By Mike Miliard | 03:05 pm | April 21, 2017
New grants seek to explore patient-reported data, tech-enabled quality improvement.  
By Bernie Monegain | 02:31 pm | April 21, 2017
Hospitals, doctors’ practices, government, insurers, and healthcare IT companies could all be affected, Kalorama says.
By Jessica Davis | 03:10 pm | April 20, 2017
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.
By Mike Miliard | 02:55 pm | April 19, 2017
Initiative expected to give emerging physicians greater comfort with electronic health record workflows.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:35 am | April 19, 2017
Annals of Surgery found death rate decline in South Carolina in hospitals that chose to participate in the program.
By Mike Miliard | 03:15 pm | April 18, 2017
Emergency teams can connect via DirectTrust, Carequality, FHIR and more.
By Jessica Davis | 02:11 pm | April 14, 2017
The agency says St. Jude Medical continued to ship faulty defibrillators despite issues with rapid battery depletion.
By Bernie Monegain | 12:40 pm | April 14, 2017
CMS initiative aims to boost outcomes, reduce cost and find innovative ways to deliver care to underserved populations.