Quality and Safety

With patient care virtualization in urgent need, Roche is supporting the sector using digital technology, says Darine Ghanem, the company's global head of personalized healthcare and patient access, global medical affairs.

Throughout the pandemic, the facility has outfitted staff with voice-activated comm badges that keep staff in a room to a minimum and reduce the need to change personal protective equipment.

CHSPSC, a Tennessee-based management company that provides IT and services to providers indirectly owned by Community Health Systems, agreed this week to settle for potential HIPAA violations.

The Kirklin Clinic of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, which sees 50,000 patients a year, went from a not-so-helpful Excel sheet to efficient, IT-driven processes.

Julia Pietsch, senior manager of digital health for Germany Trade & Invest, says the legislation will encourage companies to develop apps that can enter standard care and present greater opportunities for digital health innovation.

The data is said to include patient information release forms, driver's license copies and Social Security numbers, as first reported by BleepingComputer.

A German woman died after Düsseldorf University Clinic's servers were encrypted, which necessitated that she be relocated to a hospital 20 miles away.

We must use technology to improve healthcare for the whole world, rather than just the richest 10%, according to Bogi Eliasen, director of health at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies.

Elective but necessary surgeries were banned for a time. To properly catch up, Phoenix Children’s Hospital built a visually informative, interactive, actionable dashboard using Microsoft’s Power BI software.