Quality and Safety

Northeast Georgia Health System has deployed real-time location service and internet of things technologies to help healthcare workers in trouble. Chris Paravate, the health system's CIO, explains.

Radiation oncologist Dr. Raghav Murali-Ganesh, cofounder and CEO of Osara Health, shows how tracking symptoms can help patients live 30% longer compared with those who don’t write down how they feel.

Imprivata engineering chief Joel Burleson-Davis discusses new IAM strategies, including a potential future without passwords.

The assessment is designed to help healthcare organizations ensure they have the right governance in place for deploying artificial intelligence and machine learning models.

Leah Binder, Leapfrog's president and CEO, says the structural measure for 2025 will assess whether hospitals have a structure and culture that prioritizes safety in care delivery.

Epic is applauding the move, and says it expects that all of its clients nationwide will be live on the exchange framework by the end of next year, via its Epic Nexus qualified health information network.

This has already been a record setting year for cybersecurity, in all the wrong ways. Errol Weiss, chief security officer of Health-ISAC, discusses the cyber risks he's most concerned about and makes the case for cross-sector information sharing.

Advancing "techquity" demands that providers be all in with collaboration, transparency and inclusivity, says Andrew Hamilton, RN – who offers insights about public health surveillance and the collection and use of social care needs data.

There's a direct link between achieving EMRAM Stage 6 or 7 and higher quality and safety results, explains Anne Snowdon, HIMSS Chief Scientific Research Officer after examining Leapfrog data from 2,000 U.S. hospitals.

Healthcare organizations will need to go through a three-step process to achieve post-quantum safety: Discover, observe and transform, says Scott Crowder, vice president of IBM's quantum-safe adoption team.