Quality and Safety
We must use technology to improve healthcare for the whole world, rather than just the richest 10%, according to Bogi Eliasen, director of health at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies.
Elective but necessary surgeries were banned for a time. To properly catch up, Phoenix Children’s Hospital built a visually informative, interactive, actionable dashboard using Microsoft’s Power BI software.
A new study from SecurityScorecard and DarkOwl sees increased risk across application and endpoint security, IP reputation, patching cadence and network security.
Theo Sergiou, a patient speaker and activist, says that although progress has been made in terms of empowering patients at an organizational level, there is room for improvement at an institutional level.
Ran Balicer, chief innovation officer at Clalit Health Services in Israel, says innovative services have been implemented on a patient population level, based on data to identify potential issues to prevent disease.
Digital health futurist Shafi Ahmed says COVID-19 has shown us that users across the globe are now the "change makers" in ensuring that healthcare delivery is more equitable and accessible.
Stakeholders stressed the importance of a patient-identification strategy in an ONC working session Monday.
Although AI documentation assistants will likely be integral to future primary care consultations, they'll still need to be supervised by a human.
The U.S. Department of Justice says its Viztek subsidiary violated the False Claims Act by fraudulently gaining 2014 Edition certification for its EXA EHR.