Quality and Safety

Frank McGillin, CEO of The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic, discusses how connected health tools are enabling cost savings, convenience and other specialty care innovations.

Patients who engaged with the technology were 32% less likely to experience a seven-day readmission and 16% less likely to experience a 30-day readmission.

Also: FDA approves TytoCare's wheeze detection device, Gates Foundation funds breathalyzer that can detect infectious disease, and Google announces radiotherapy AI plan with Mayo Clinic.

All vendors are struggling to provide training that meets the needs of small hospitals, researchers say, and, while some fail to deliver on product functionality promises, others earn praise for their transparency.

Previewing his HIMSS23 panel, Dr. Manish Kohli, board member of Wings of Hope and chief digital health officer and global head of humanitarian programs at Securra Health, explains how Wings of Hope uses tech to aid isolated communities.

Tom O'Neil, managing director of Berkeley Research Group, says boards need to think hard about how machine learning models are approved and deployed, since big issues related to safety, efficacy and transparency are at stake.

Tony Jaros, CEO of Legacy Data Access, shares expertise on the vanishing art of in-house mastery of legacy systems, retiring systems after M&A and more.

Hospitals and health systems must "move faster and get more creative to keep the amazing people we have," says provider experience expert Dr. Adrienne Boissy, CMO of Qualtrics.

Working with its DES Health Consulting team, the advisory firm aims to help health system clients tackle clinician burnout and manage the demands on the workforce, improving quality and safety, job retention and provider experience.