Quality and Safety
The initiative will leverage artificial intelligence, high-performance computing and data from the VA and other federal resources to develop better treatments and preventative care for veterans.
Leapfrog Group says 30 percent of hospitals fully meet the four criteria for bar code medication administration, though 74 percent meet the group’s two CPOE criteria.
EHR vendor hopes the HL7-enabled integration will give patients access to learn more about symptoms, conditions, healthy living information and more.
KLAS report shows that while Cerner’s analytics is easy to turn on, Epic’s can require a more cumbersome installation.
By integrating the Cleveland Clinic spinoff NeuroLogix into the system, Cerner hopes to better track neurological injuries.
New grants seek to explore patient-reported data, tech-enabled quality improvement.
Hospitals, doctors’ practices, government, insurers, and healthcare IT companies could all be affected, Kalorama says.
The agency scored higher on six of nine patient safety indicators, but still needs to work on behavioral health and patient experience, a JAMA Internal Medicine report finds.
Initiative expected to give emerging physicians greater comfort with electronic health record workflows.
Annals of Surgery found death rate decline in South Carolina in hospitals that chose to participate in the program.