Quality and Safety

Baptist Health Hardin's assistant VP of emergency services, Deanna Parker, talks about how technology transformed her ER during in a crisis.

The Southern Ohio Medical Center still faced complications nearly a week after an unauthorized third party gained access to its servers.

Dr. Nasim Afsar will be in charge of the company's efforts around patient care, which are focused on quality and safety, regulatory compliance, government and policy, and continuous improvement.

It has tapped Vertel to expand the coverage and improve the performance of its network.

More than 40 million patient records have been compromised this past year by incidents reported to the federal government in 2021.

But a recent study published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine found that clinicians are still concerned about hurdles to telehealth implementation.

H-ISAC Chief Security Officer Errol Weiss warns that individuals working on COVID-19 vaccines and treatments are of "high interest" to adversaries. He'll discuss more at the upcoming HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum.  

Several outlets had pointed to Dr. Robert Califf, who also led the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2016, as the likely candidate prior to the official announcement.

The thousands of potentially affected healthcare devices include anesthesia machines and patient monitors, according to researchers.

Artificial intelligence is the "transformative technology of our time" and demands strong, smart regulation to enable its potential, says Brookings scholar Darrell M. West ahead of his appearance at HIMSS Machine Learning & AI for Healthcare.