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Quality and Safety

By Andrea Fox | 10:58 am | October 13, 2023
New artificial intelligence capabilities aim to unify healthcare analytics in one common architecture, while machine learning and generative AI-driven expansions in Azure enhance digital transformation and improve clinical workflows, the company says.
By Andrea Fox | 08:19 am | October 13, 2023
Dr. Ben Zaniello, chief medical officer of PointClickCare, explains three pathways to consider to achieve whole person care and shares his personal experiences engaging SDOH on post-acute care coordination.
By Mike Miliard | 12:07 pm | October 12, 2023
The agency seeks to draw on outside expertise to "ensure we appropriately apply our regulatory authority in a way that protects patient health while continuing to support innovation," says the director of its Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
Success Stories & ROI
By Bill Siwicki | 12:00 pm | October 12, 2023
The technology also helps care teams to standardize patient education and care pathways, while more consistently collecting patient-reported outcomes and other data across its spine, joint and sports medicine service lines, says its orthopedic surgery chief.
By Mike Miliard | 11:30 am | October 11, 2023
The risk management and certification group says the program, touted as the first of its kind, aims to offer a CSF-based strategy to deploy trustworthy models.
Success Stories & ROI
By Bill Siwicki | 10:36 am | October 11, 2023
The initiative also provides savings in the form of signing bonuses the hospital would have had to pay out for new staff. And it saved $7 million on travel nurses. Further, nurse satisfaction has improved significantly, its chief digital officer says.
By Susan Morse | 10:59 am | October 10, 2023
Numerous telehealth flexibilities allowed under the pandemic will need to be decided on a more permanent basis, ATA says.
By HIMSS TV | 07:00 am | October 06, 2023
"We can identify things earlier compared to when a human would see it," said Gil Margolin, CTP with Talkspace, which uses linguistic regression to analyze de-identified behavioral health messages and alert providers to patients at risk for self-harm.
By Bill Siwicki | 12:20 pm | October 05, 2023
Carol Ann Hudson of health system Lifepoint Health and AdvantagePoint ACOs offers some of her experiences as a woman executive in healthcare (and the space program) and dives deep into the new Electronic Clinical Quality Measures.
By Mike Miliard | 11:55 am | October 05, 2023
Several years in the making, involving nearly 30,000 caregivers and more than 6,000 support personnel, the massive effort will help the health system streamline care through a unified patient record, says its CIO Robert Eardley.