Quality and Safety

TGH InnoVentures will include an innovation lab and an accelerator program, and will directly invest in promising healthcare-focused startups.

Beyond the stress of increasing patient volumes and emotionally draining hospital shifts, RNs are grappling with alert and alarm fatigue, burdensome documentation, and EHR usability. But they’re finding ways to cope – and AI and automation are helping.

The Alessi Agenda: Duncan Selbie, former chief executive at Public Health England, explains how data-driven decision-making improves outcomes in the public health setting.

The Combined Cyber Response Team will assist the University of Vermont Health Network in ensuring thousands of end-user devices are free of malware or viruses.  

The Boston health system’s Digital Innovation Hub has spearheaded a new way to get all staff to contribute ideas. Many of those ideas are already in play and proving successful.

Amid pointed recent ransomware warnings from federal agencies, some Massachusetts health systems have ramped up filtering for external emails or temporarily blocked them altogether.

Northwest Medical Specialties’ palliative care consults nearly doubled. Hospice referrals increased twelvefold. The integration of palliative care with advanced cancer helped the practice reach quality benchmarks.

The document describes the government's hopes for how technology goals should be prioritized over the next five years – with an emphasis on patients' access to their health data.

Imagia Chief Technology Officer Florent Chandelier says the Montreal-based software startup is expanding artificial intelligence into cancer research.

A new report from Booz Allen Hamilton predicts that the explosion in virtual care offerings will change the way bad actors target health data.