Quality and Safety

The Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization office will replace the current Interagency Program Office.

The group wants to advance the ability of augmented intelligence to enhance care, boost population health, drive value and improve physician satisfaction.

The partnership aims to expand secure identity matching so care teams have seamless access to medical records.

For Mid-Valley Behavioral Care Network, higher follow-up rates mean fewer patients retiring to the hospital after discharge, meaning a reduction in avoidable emergency department admissions and readmission, ultimately saving the hospital money and other clinical staff resources as well.

HIMSS TV will be live broadcasting from the HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Conference in Helsinki June 12-13. Tune in to HIMSS.tv for in-depth interviews with the movers and shakers in digital health.

The technology can support Borrego in more than 22 languages. More than 15,000 patients who were not engaging in their health received care from these new efforts involving outreach programs via the technology.

However, the Center for Connected Medicine study also found broad support for innovation in the C-suite and that health systems are actively partnering with external parties for technologies and expertise to supplement their strengths.

The informatics group says the feds should do more to protect against bad data and algorithm bias, and keep cybersecurity top of mind in its software-as-a-medical-device rules.

Cybersecurity experts from across health IT offer their opinions on the breach itself, what must be done for the lab company to fix security and regain trust – and how similar incidents can be avoided across healthcare.

The retailer joins other big players such as AmerisourceBergen, McKesson and Pfizer in the effort to use distributed ledger technology for medication safety and integrity.