Quality and Safety

Burnout in healthcare IT is at an all-time high, and this first AWS global healthcare accelerator focuses on solving the crisis.

Wexner Medical Center and Ohio State College of Medicine received a grant that includes support for delivering a validated mind-body health program through wearable devices and smartphones.

The rates are holding steady at 34% since 2021, but the percentage of clinicians citing a chaotic work environment has stayed at 28% over the last five years.

Six core concepts, developed with input from industry experts and stakeholders, offer chances for healthcare organizations to evolve in digitally enabled care.

The technology broadens the hospital's patient transport reach, expedites patient transfers and improves inpatient care.

Bassett Healthcare Network's collaboration with Andreessen Horowitz is meant to open up a suite of digital healthcare tools to enhance medical services in an eight-county region in upstate New York.

The up-front payment for all shares of the company, which specializes in technologies for heart recovery, is valued at $16.6 billion.  

It's the latest health system to embrace the idea that patients with "certain acute conditions can be treated in the comfort of their home with the same level of care and monitoring they would receive within the walls of our hospitals."

Kami Vision develops artificial intelligence-based fall-detection technology for elder care, using home cameras to detect when a fall occurs and then notifying concerned parties. Yamin Durrani, the company's CEO, explains more.

CDC says it is seeing the highest influenza hospitalization rates going back a decade.