Quality and Safety
Juan Nanez, a speaker at HIMSS23 and director of Programs at Paso del Norte Health Information Exchange, says when clinicians can access past patient history to guide decisions, hospital readmissions and ER visits decrease.
CMS has released a proposed rule to speed up prior authorization approval.
A new Arch Collaborative user's guide dives into what 3,000 highly satisfied electronic health record users do that their less satisfied peers don't.
Amazon Web Services says the 23 startups selected for the new AWS Healthcare Accelerator are developing cloud-based solutions to help address the global healthcare worker shortage.
More than 80% of patients prefer this in-depth style of telemedicine to in-person care, says the health system's CMIO.
Value-based payment models by CMS have not yet resulted in significant savings to payers, providers, or patients, says Health Affairs study.
MSIA warns of "serious unintended" consequences from the proposed changes.
Frank McGillin, CEO of The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic, discusses how connected health tools are enabling cost savings, convenience and other specialty care innovations.
Patients who engaged with the technology were 32% less likely to experience a seven-day readmission and 16% less likely to experience a 30-day readmission.
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