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Quality and Safety

By Nathan Eddy | 11:06 am | July 26, 2022
"While I fully appreciate substantial challenges exist," he said of the rocky Cerner Oracle rollout, which has been put on pause, "the fact is that more is working than is not."
By Bill Siwicki | 10:52 am | July 26, 2022
"Neurocognitive health interventions must be multipronged and personal, which necessitates the use of digital tools to adequately equip health systems to meet this growing need," one expert says.
By Mike Miliard | 11:49 am | July 25, 2022
As artificial intelligence and machine learning are deployed more widely and consequentially across healthcare and elsewhere, "it is vital that we address safety, security and equity concerns."
By Bill Siwicki | 11:44 am | July 25, 2022
"There is now a robust, extensive and dynamic virtual care option for patients that did not exist prior to the pandemic," its IT director of telehealth reports.
By HIMSS TV | 03:00 pm | July 20, 2022
Elad Benjamin, general manager at Clinical Data Services at Philips, sheds light on findings from the latest Philips Future Health Index report, including the effects of staff shortages on healthcare.
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By Baxter | 10:57 am | July 18, 2022
Strategies for protecting clinicians across the industry.
By Mike Miliard | 01:08 pm | July 15, 2022
With Google, Meta and others pushing the envelope in artificial intelligence research, Chirag Shah, professor at the iSchool at the University of Washington, talks about some practical and ethical considerations.
By Mike Miliard | 11:07 am | July 15, 2022
The VA Office of Inspector General cites nearly 150 adverse events connected to a routing glitch, and says "insufficient mitigations" and "continued risk to patient safety" leave it with big concerns about the so-called "unknown queue."
By Bill Siwicki | 01:12 pm | July 08, 2022
It has amassed more than 13 billion elements of clinical and claims data, and offers several products and services for healthcare providers and payers, state government agencies, federal government agencies, and other stakeholders.