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Quality and Safety

By Bill Siwicki | 01:47 pm | March 28, 2024
The personalized, large language model-backed framework is designed to provide support for patient needs – whether answering urgent health questions or just lending an empathetic ear.
By Bill Siwicki | 12:01 pm | March 27, 2024
The accomplishment puts the health system in a better position to attract and retain the talent that is so critical to its ability to serve its patients, says its VP of operations.
By Andrea Fox | 11:17 am | March 27, 2024
Because a high-risk flag had been inactivated in the hospital’s new Oracle electronic health record, clinicians did not evaluate a veteran's mental health and medication restart request, contributing to an overdose seven weeks after a missed appointment.
By Bill Siwicki | 11:58 am | March 26, 2024
The patient's voice is clear – healthcare needs to be easier to navigate and digital channels are a great place to invest, says Chrissy Daniels, chief experience officer at Press Ganey, which has been focused on patient experience for more than 40 years.
By Bill Siwicki | 12:56 pm | March 22, 2024
The health system's chief analytics officer discusses creating a rigorous data quality program for reliable and actionable insights, and the importance of developing an innovation ecosystem.
By Adam Ang | 08:21 pm | March 19, 2024
Doing away with traditional manual coding has enabled Mount Alvernia Hospital's IT team to focus more on innovation rather than "reinventing the wheel," shares technology director Bruce Leong.
By Bill Siwicki | 01:09 pm | March 19, 2024
Robert Slepin, a longtime IT exec at provider organizations who's now a top consultant at Epic, discusses his role, and how it helps the company prioritize problem solving in electronic health record deployments.
By HIMSS TV | 05:35 pm | March 14, 2024
Inovalon acquired VigiLanz to bring real-time surveillance software that can help prevent adverse hospital events. Inovalon's Julie Lambert, president and provider GM, and Hayley Burgess, SVP for provider surveillance and safety, offer a deep dive.  
By Bill Siwicki | 10:50 am | March 14, 2024
The Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network, or TRAIN, aims to put responsible AI principles into action to enhance the quality, safety and trustworthiness of healthcare AI.
By Mike Miliard | 12:13 pm | March 13, 2024
At HIMSS24, the president of Mayo Clinic Platform offered some tough truths about the challenges of deploying genAI – touting its enormous potential while spotlighting patient safety dangers to guard against in provider settings.