Quality and Safety

Kanal Jain, president of Practiceforces, has been coming to HIMSS Global Conferences for 20 years and always picks up new ideas, even through chance meetings and discussions.

At Penn Medicine, integrated product teams – comprising data scientists, physicians and software engineers, among others – are helping improve AI and machine learning applications.

The NASA astronaut and microbiologist discusses tech's role in addressing the health risks of space exploration and shares the most gratifying moment in her career.

Bob Katter, president of First Databank, offers hospital and health system IT leaders four ways to help clinicians deal with the many medication decision support alerts they receive daily.

Finding a natural pathway to deliver insulin can transform the lives of patients who suffer from diabetes, while education and finance can drive innovation to improve outcomes, say Diabetology cofounders Glen Travers and Roger New.

This week's top stories include the OIG claiming CMS lacks adequate authority to ensure hospitals are adequately prepared for the next pandemic, Ro buying at-home diagnostic firm Kit and a new report finding telehealth use is declining.

Central Logic CMO Dr. Darin Vercillo discusses how health systems via IT can best orchestrate operations, most notably patient transfers and discharges to post-acute care.

Abbott has worked with many governments to understand the value of different types of testing and is building awareness of the benefits of digital health, says Florian Lange, director of AlinIQ EMEA.

Yuri Jung, manager at F&D Partners, says transformations in telemedicine, AI diagnosis and AI-enabled medical devices have been accelerated during the pandemic, while innovative digital tools can now help in everyday life for South Koreans.

Leadership is crucial to developing new strategies to provide more sustainable healthcare and improve outcomes, says David Labajo, VP of digital sales Europe at GE Healthcare.