Quality and Safety

Deep Dive: As NASA prepares to send astronauts to Mars in the not so distant future, innovators look at what the trip could teach us about human health.

Dr. Ben Maruthappu, CEO of Cera, says digital tools can help the elderly live longer and better in the home. Technology also eases pressures on various health and care systems.

InsightRX CEO Sirj Goswami says personalized drug dosing can increase the efficacy and safety of medications.

Arcadia sends more than 1 million text messages in a frictionless outreach to close gaps in care, says Dr. Rich Parker, the company's chief medical officer.

Many of the top 10 incidents logged by HHS Office for Civil Rights involved ransomware, but a few stemmed from device theft or improper record disposal.

Allscripts, athenahealth, Cerner, DrChrono, Epic, Greenway Health, Meditech and NextGen offer an up-to-the-minute look at how they’re enabling complex immunization recordkeeping for their health system customers.

Healthvana CEO Ramin Bastani describes how his company is working with labs, providers and public health organizations to deliver test results with security, efficiency and empathy.

The global consortium for eHealth interoperability and the digital health indicators are just two success stories that HIMSS has introduced in 2020 with the aim of improving healthcare, says HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf.

Discovered by CyberMDX, the flaw, MDhex-Ray, could allow remote exploits that would compromise connected radiology devices – enabling access to and potential manipulation of protected health data.

From the "cold chain" to clinicians' devices at the point of care, the roll-out of a COVID-19 vaccine presents bad actors with a wide array of vulnerable targets.