Quality & Safety
Hint: The health system achieved a 98.5 percent compliance rate for caregivers scanning medication and patient wristbands.
Feeding data directly from a medical device into medical records has reduced errors, improved patient safety and increased caregiver efficiency.
The Ideation Program for Healthcare aims to foster and incubate new IT or best practices that improve the healthcare experience.
The program gave a glimpse into the possibility of hospitals using drones in the future.
The National Quality Forum is set to finalize a framework that can measure health data interoperability and identify gaps in progress.
A three-year study on a large mid-Atlantic hospital found that the laboratory department was hit the hardest during downtime, with patient identification as the largest challenge.
Electronic prescribing of controlled substances was up 256 percent in 2016, company says.
Getting meaningful use and even CMS out of the way will pave the road for hospitals to find innovative new business models that are quickly becoming critical to the grand vision, hospital CIO, consultant say.
Second phase of the pilot will include insights on bundled payment assignments.
WannaCry attacks highlight the dangers of terrorists accessing CRISPR tools, experts say.