Quality and Safety

Influential healthcare experts unpack the biggest test of the pandemic: combining digital with compassionate care at #HIMSS21Europe. 

Dr. Volker Amelung, president of the German Managed Care Association, discusses what digital health applications (DiGA) mean for German citizens as well as the main focus for international health systems post-COVID-19.

Other recommendations include boosting local production, promoting research and development, and creating robust quality management maturity.

HIMSS continues to engage with internal and external experts to help with health and safety decisions in Las Vegas. It is also working with other experts in public health, population health, epidemiology, event planning and more.

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said that "all options are on the table" when it comes to repercussions for cyberattacks.

Internal guidance shared this week directed U.S. attorney's offices to centrally coordinate ransomware investigations with a task force, Reuters reports.

While traditionally deeply skeptical of artificial intelligence in clinical settings, in today's fast-changing care delivery landscape many physicians are thinking more proactively about how AI can improve quality and patient experience.

The company points to telehealth and virtual care as areas of vulnerability, and sees ransomware attacks as an ongoing threat.

The system for communicating COVID-19 status also saved Nova Scotia Health's public health team more than 10,000 hours of phone time over the past year.