Quality and Safety
Connected Health
More and more health systems are taking steps to "fully unleash nurse innovators at the leadership level," a new report shows, tapping their specialized expertise for technology deployment, process improvement, patient experience and more.
Connected Health
The impact of the app on the Providence St. Joseph Health care delivery experience is reflected in the fact that 94 percent of the patients who used it found it to be helpful.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock is able to customize best practice processes from the technology out of the box – helping manage Epic's many environments, constant requests and complicated infrastructure, one IT exec explains.
eHealth NSW has been established as a distinct organisation within the New South Wales (NSW) Ministry of Health in Australia to provide statewide leadership on the shape, delivery and management of ICT-led healthcare.
Real-time location systems can enable big gains in quality, safety and cost-efficiency – but deployments are complex and require clear role definitions and enthusiastic buy-in from an array of stakeholders, a new KLAS report shows.
Providers there also don't have to wait 28 days for access to Epic and other systems, and now receive full rights within two days.
Wende Hutton, general partner at Canaan Partners, discusses the venture capital firm’s project looking not only into the benefits of blockchain but also its potential to be corrupted.
Jennifer Lannon, advisor at Health Innovation, explains the advantages of the new domain, including how hospitals in Seattle and Miami are using it for branding and marketing purposes.
The goal is to improve identification of certain patients through algorithms that produce tailored and dynamic risk scores, and make those resources available to VA caregivers and patients.
Companies say aligning their platforms will help eliminate duplicate records, establish more accurate care histories and improve patient safety.