Quality and Safety

The data breach exposed the personal information of patients, family members and caregivers in Washington State. The number of affected individuals is still being investigated.

Personalized medicine is constantly evolving, and the technologies it relies on are advancing rapidly. In this environment, the associated challenges are numerous and complex. Overcoming them often requires fresh eyes and multiple perspectives.

While understanding and reconciling drugs after discharge from the hospital can be challenging, it's a necessity for greater efficacy of care delivery. HL7's Da Vinci project can help.

The technology has been proven to greatly reduce times to treatment.

The cloud-based platform provides security, scale and the processing power needed for genomic data storage and analyses, eliminating the need for specialized infrastructure and workflows.  

Telemedicine has, at long last, become very popular.

The new partnership, focused on social determinants of health, aims to create a statewide mechanism for sharing data referrals, interventions and outcomes among providers and social care agencies.

Ahead of the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum, Steve Winterfeld, advisory CISO at Akamai, shares insights on what healthcare leaders, critical peers and stakeholders want to know about cybersecurity.

The merged capabilities will create a more robust nonprofit compliance and risk-management partner focused on increasing trust in and accreditation programs for healthcare organizations.

The critical study was enabled by applying machine learning algorithms to a unique database of millions of de-identified claims.