Analytics
The group says privacy and security, clinical documentation improvement and information governance will demand the attention of health IT and infosec executives in the year ahead.
The organization won a HIMSS Indiana Chapter Hackathon, finding where ER visits could have been treated in the primary care setting and offering guidance for all healthcare organizations.
The healthcare sector is improving its cybersecurity practices but as a whole, much more needs to be done.
Within the first 18 months of the ED program initiative, Mercy reduced opioid prescriptions by 50 percent.
While American providers need it for value-based care, hospitals abroad want the tools for their own quality initiatives, but the high cost may hinder developing countries.
Stanford researchers see risks in improperly deployed artificial intelligence but say it can have big benefits when used as a partner in care delivery.
Michael Draugelis says artificial intelligence has big potential to drive analytics on varied and voluminous clinical data – but care must be taken to enable consistent and repeatable performance.
St. Louis health system working hard to roll out Epic to other hospitals, embrace virtual care and dive into data analytics.
They will jointly pursue a number of quality improvement initiatives over the coming years, officials say.
The large health system aims to learn from the IT successes of more than two dozen other peers, such as Rush, Providence St. Joseph, Sutter Health and more.