Quality and Safety

What does the next year in AI and genAI look like? How can and must AI help with the clinician shortage? Is fearmongering detrimental to AI's future? Greg Miller, vice president of business development at Carta Healthcare, has the answers.

So says a new OIG audit, which found the VA and Oracle Health have been misaligned in their responses to outages throughout Electronic Health Record Modernization. While the agency has made procedural improvements, it needs to go further, auditors say.

A national interoperability leader advocates for simpler and more secure data exchange use cases, and says making patient access a routine part of healthcare information exchange will lead to positive health impacts.

The investigation, billed as the first of its kind, had alleged that Dallas-based Piece Technologies made "deceptive claims" about the accuracy of its artificial intelligence products, which are deployed at several hospitals in the Lone Star State.

Both electronic health record vendors have made open API code available to their health system clients that enables them to coordinate with the VA when treating veterans who have sought care at community providers.

Michael Pencina, director of Duke AI Health, sees big potential but also fundamental challenges as providers try to figure out what tools to use, where and when to use them, and for what purposes.

Healthcare providers can take advantage of seniors' growing trust in digital health tools, empowering older adults to make sense of a complex healthcare landscape, says the CEO of one care navigation platform for Medicare beneficiaries.

Sutter Health in California has collaborated with PointClickCare's ED Optimization to track patients who travel between ERs.

To help overcome fragmentation and address gaps in telehealth and remote patient care, the new program prepares healthcare organizations to deliver high-quality patient care and effective reporting and tracking.