Quality and Safety
Cloud-based indexing can fix duplicate patient records, improving interoperability and patient outcomes for health information exchanges like etHIN.
The regional pediatrics provider is working across teams and with the AMA to determine the best staffing models, reduce unnecessary daily burdens for clinicians and improve medical assistant-to-clinician ratios.
Workforce challenges, patient engagement efforts, ongoing interoperability hurdles and some big announcements from legacy EHR and Big Tech players were among the news and reports that captured the most attention this past year.
One person dies from suicide every 11 minutes in the U.S. A new study shows that telemedicine can be used to treat more severe mental illness – contrary to previous thought.
Efforts to harness artificial intelligence to streamline healthcare operations and improve patient outcomes accelerated this year, as providers strove to fine-tune algorithms and arrive at deeper insights into clinical and operational patterns.
One analysis found overall, inpatient and/or observational admissions dropped by 30%, readmissions decreased by 46%, and total costs of care fell by 20%.
The CGO will advance the county’s Aging Roadmap by helping to improve the coordination of health and social services and the detection, diagnosis and management of age-related diseases.
Understanding people's health engagement behaviors is key to pushing them to manage their own health, says Praveen Deorani, senior data scientist at the Singapore Ministry of Health's Office of Healthcare Transformation.
Leveraging AI, machine learning and neural networks can help healthcare standardize data, comply with info blocking requirements and improve health outcomes.
The goal is to advance patient safety nationally by studying and scaling telehealth as a proactive safety tool and enhance its safe use within the diverse communities served by connected care.