Quality and Safety

The hospital uses Cerner’s cloud deployment model to give clinicians a role-based communications system and give nurses a mobile tool for advanced clinical workflows.

 As COVID-19 surges and supply lines become critical, health system leaders are working toward real-time visibility and predictive tools for inventory, pricing, lead times and demand trends.

Citing patient safety, the agency says it has "significant concerns" regarding the electronic health record vendor's compliance with its obligation under a 2017 Corporate Integrity Agreement.

It's imperative to collect and share data to address inequities in care, says George Halvorson, chair and CEO of the Institute for InterGroup Understanding.

The filing follows Mayo Clinic's announcement that a former employee had inappropriately accessed the information of more than 1,600 patients.

TGH InnoVentures will include an innovation lab and an accelerator program, and will directly invest in promising healthcare-focused startups.

Beyond the stress of increasing patient volumes and emotionally draining hospital shifts, RNs are grappling with alert and alarm fatigue, burdensome documentation, and EHR usability. But they’re finding ways to cope – and AI and automation are helping.

The Alessi Agenda: Duncan Selbie, former chief executive at Public Health England, explains how data-driven decision-making improves outcomes in the public health setting.

The Combined Cyber Response Team will assist the University of Vermont Health Network in ensuring thousands of end-user devices are free of malware or viruses.  

The Boston health system’s Digital Innovation Hub has spearheaded a new way to get all staff to contribute ideas. Many of those ideas are already in play and proving successful.