Quality and Safety
Measure Applications Partnership wants better alignment and purpose for the myriad quality measures hospitals, practices and LTPAC sites have to report.
The findings underscore financial challenges many health systems are experiencing as the operating room is one of the costliest units to run.
Obama-era officials David Blumenthal and Aneesh Chopra say yes.
New research found that software problems caused harm to a small percentage of patients in a test but the authors said the findings are likely below what a national study would uncover.
Phoenix Children’s CIO David Higginson and Allscripts CEO Paul Black discuss why patient safety innovation demands attention to human factors.
The platform gives providers patient data to earn incentives from risk-based contracts.
The Partnership for Artificial Intelligence and Automation in Healthcare aims to foster a better understanding of how AI can improve care access and quality while also lowering costs.
Partners HealthCare, Triad Healthcare undertake separate initiatives focused on reducing costs with by delivering notifications to clinicians about patients not complying with treatment regimens.
NCQA says the physician group earned the Patient-Centered Medical Home designation for coordinated care and evidence-based medicine.
The group says privacy can still be maintained while giving care providers secure access to relevant substance abuse data and calls on Congress to allow HHS to pursue patient ID strategies.