Quality and Safety

Stressing the importance of app validation, Dr. Jack Resneck, Jr., chair of the board of trustees at the American Medical Association, says technology can either improve or reinforce disparities around outcomes in healthcare.

Starship's Clinical Director Dr. Greg Williams details how the New Zealand hospital is accomplishing patient matching to a high degree of confidence. 

Wende Hutton, general partner at Canaan Partners, discusses the venture capital firm’s project looking not only into the benefits of blockchain but also its potential to be corrupted.

Jennifer Lannon, advisor at Health Innovation, explains the advantages of the new domain, including how hospitals in Seattle and Miami are using it for branding and marketing purposes.

ThreatConnect VP Andrew Pendergast discusses infosec automation and orchestration, the value of external threat intelligence and skepticism about AI.

Anne Snowdon, with the World Health Innovation Network, and Blain Newton with HIMSS, discuss H-SIMM – the new maturity model for supply chain – and how it can help improve patient safety as well as potentially save health systems billions of dollars.

Haiqing Song, deputy director of the neurology program at the Xuanwu Hospital, Capital University of Medical Sciences in China, talks about his organization's approach to digitization and what is needed to effectively leverage technology.

Look for creative and curious people who like to solve problems and want to know that what they’ve done is actually working, says Neil Gomes, Chief Digital Officer at Jefferson Health.

The industry has to use metrics to move the needle on quality measures, says Dr. Geeta Nayyar, Chief Healthcare and Innovation Officer at Femwell Group.

China's Kunming Children's Hospital put the power of IT to work to improve quality, safety and efficiency – and achieve Stage 7 of the EMRAM, says the organization’s president, Tiesong Zhang.