Quality and Safety
The latest federal move in the fight to combat opioid abuse will have states sharing PDMP data with the DEA.
Millions of Americans are struggling with life expectancy rates, and a Mount Sinai task force says other countries hold the key to making vast improvements.
The agency released a five-point plan outlining regulatory changes to bolster medical device safety, including requiring manufacturers ensure devices can be updated and patched.
The New York City-based health system tailored its care pathways to fix inefficiencies and gained back big ROI from the hard work it did with staff workflows and process improvements.
The new Insight Culture of Safety Assessment for Health IT Companies was built to help vendors adhere to principles of safe design, development and use when creating products.
Rice University student developers have designed the application, which could help with some of the gait problems that can affect people with Parkinson's.
AI technology is already in use in certain aspects of healthcare, such as diagnostic imaging, but it’s being underutilized in several others.
The chief information officer of a world-class health system explains how he leads his team to enable more data-driven and patient-centric care delivery.
Healthcare leaders Robert Wachter, David Bates, Leah Binder and Tejal Gandhi take the pulse of how far patient safety has come in recent decades – and point toward the work that lies ahead.
Robert Wachter, MD, and healthcare futurist Jeff Goldsmith make a case for addressing physician burnout.