Quality and Safety

At Penn Medicine, integrated product teams – comprising data scientists, physicians and software engineers, among others – are helping improve AI and machine learning applications.

Blockholders released 2,460 OR hours in the first four months of 2021 – and overall OR utilization has increased by 5%.

The NASA astronaut and microbiologist discusses tech's role in addressing the health risks of space exploration and shares the most gratifying moment in her career.

The consulting firm told Healthcare IT News that the incident had no impact on its operations or on its clients' systems.

The provider org has reported reductions across partial hospitalization programs and intensive outpatient programs for adolescents in severity of: suicidal ideation, non-suicidal self-injury, depressive and anxiety symptoms, and more.

"Collaborative health" is the goal. Trust, compassion and quality digital data are how to achieve it.

At HIMSS21 Digital on Monday, the president of Mayo Clinic Platform said "augmentation of human decision making is going to be greatly beneficial" – but some hurdles need to be overcome first.

Panelists at the HIMSS21 Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum on Monday emphasized the importance of getting clinicians and decision-makers on board with safeguarding a health system from bad actors.

A director at Hope for Henry, which is dedicated to improving the hospital experience for children, will offer compassionate strategies for adherence-based programming at HIMSS21.

Bob Katter, president of First Databank, offers hospital and health system IT leaders four ways to help clinicians deal with the many medication decision support alerts they receive daily.