Quality and Safety

Dr. Steve Buslovich, chief medical officer of senior care at PointClickCare, explains how technology can improve both the care delivery experience, for both clinicians and patients.

According to Frost & Sullivan's Reenita Das, digital startups often fail by focusing on technology and AI rather than solving clinicians' pain points and reducing friction to genuinely improve care.

These technologies introduce new considerations regarding safety and effectiveness across the total product life cycle.

The combined companies will use their respective expertise to build out an artificial intelligence platform designed to help healthcare providers and others with data and benchmarking to improve patient and employee experience.

Bob Watson, CEO of Health Gorilla, explains why providers can expect interoperability enforcement under CMS and the advantages of adoption.

Within the first week of use, the badges helped security teams at the Michigan health system quickly stop more than a dozen dangerous incidents. That's a big safety improvement for nurses and other staff, compared to its previous phone-based process.

Dr. Viviane Bunin also is boosting patient satisfaction and getting reimbursed for this new technology: Of 66 HRV tests to date, 78.8% were reimbursed by insurers. "Patient feedback has been remarkable," she says.

Healthcare organizations should join federal 'sandboxes' to help shape policy, prepare the workforce, and stay on top of compliance and ethics as artificial intelligence evolves, says Lora Sparkman, VP of patient safety and quality at Relias.

In just 10 months, the analytics initiative helped the hospital rack up nearly 700 hours of productivity saved for clinicians, nurses, administrators and staff. It's also fostered safer surgical environments with fewer surgical site infections.

Patients in the largely rural pediatric population now have a better office experience and more personalized treatment with artificial intelligence, says VCH's physician informatics director.