Quality and Safety
The revalidation was done over three days, along with the successful EMRAM Stage 6 revalidation of the co-located Jurong Community Hospital.
Building off its Hospital Without Walls initiative, it's offering new flexibilities around telehealth and remote patient monitoring as the country enters "a new level of crisis response," said CMS Administrator Seema Verma.
David Berridge, deputy chief medical officer at The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, says the path forward requires a universal standard for more automation and better monitoring of product quality.
Remote patient monitoring ecosystems should not be treated in the same way as traditional endpoints, say cybersecurity experts.
Abdulaziz Alkhlaif, CIO of Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Mishari Hospital, discusses data transformation, artificial intelligence and the next generation of patient portals in Saudi Arabia.
The system's Epic electronic health record has been in "read-only" status at several of the system's sites, with MyChart patient portals also inaccessible.
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Digital transformation is imperative in healthcare, and digital tools can improve the relationship between providers and patients, as highlighted during COVID-19, says Majed Nasser, general manager at GE Digital, META.
A recently published JAMIA paper argues that design, implementation and policy considerations must be taken into account when developing virtual care technology.
