Quality and Safety
The rooms will utilize technology to improve the care experience for both patients and clinical staff.
Some wins so far? Huge reductions in patient falls and increases in HCAHPS patient satisfaction scores.
The Veterans Health Administration is turning to virtual reality to better understand patient feedback, hoping to foster wider appreciation for the "the empathic care our veterans deserve."
Juan Nanez, a speaker at HIMSS23 and director of Programs at Paso del Norte Health Information Exchange, says when clinicians can access past patient history to guide decisions, hospital readmissions and ER visits decrease.
CMS has released a proposed rule to speed up prior authorization approval.
A new Arch Collaborative user's guide dives into what 3,000 highly satisfied electronic health record users do that their less satisfied peers don't.
Amazon Web Services says the 23 startups selected for the new AWS Healthcare Accelerator are developing cloud-based solutions to help address the global healthcare worker shortage.
More than 80% of patients prefer this in-depth style of telemedicine to in-person care, says the health system's CMIO.
Value-based payment models by CMS have not yet resulted in significant savings to payers, providers, or patients, says Health Affairs study.
MSIA warns of "serious unintended" consequences from the proposed changes.