Quality and Safety

Videha Sharma, clinical innovation lead at the University of Manchester, explains the NHS’s plan to expand pharmacogenetics, or how people’s genetic codes influence the effects of drugs, beyond specialist care to general practice.

Despite the highest agency user fees on record, and granted new authorities to reform and accelerate medical device and biologics approvals, representatives questioned delays in getting products to patients faster.

Efforts are being made to find ways to notify clinicians about possible medication errors without overloading them. First Databank director of product management Anna Dover and NCH Healthcare System CMIO Dr. David Linz explain.  

The health system’s Cedars-Sinai Connect primary care application has been especially effective, says CIO Craig Kwiatkowski, who describes how he measures an app’s success and how his team is protecting against AI biases.

Also, IHH Healthcare is now offering AI-based sleep monitoring solutions.

Craig Kwiatkowski is calibrating the pace of the health system's artificial intelligence adoption to ensure it's deploying generative AI safely and responsibly.

Craig Kwiatkowski is taking the FAVES approach: fair, appropriate, valid, effective and safe. He says this also helps from an adoption perspective.  

Mette Maria Skjøth, RN, department head at the Dermatology and Allergy Centre of Denmark's Odense University Hospital, discusses potential uses for AI tools, including early detection of sepsis and infectious diseases.

As cyberattacks increase in scope and intensity, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange is asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies to do more to help health systems maintain operational continuity.

The system provides the data insights that enable the organization to close underutilized clinics and redirect patients to others nearby. Additionally, the finance teams have whittled down rent reporting from two months to a week.