Quality and Safety

Despite its clear potential to improve access to high-quality care in underserved communities, telehealth is underutilized by safety-net providers due to a range of barriers, according to a new report from the RAND Corporation.

Development has been "fairly stagnant," from some vendors, causing providers to fill the gap with population health management platforms, EHRs and business intelligence tools.

The famed digital health pioneer talks about his new book, Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again. The potential is immense, he says, but the U.S. needs a plan.

Haiqing Song, deputy director of the neurology program at the Xuanwu Hospital, Capital University of Medical Sciences in China, talks about his organization's approach to digitization and what is needed to effectively leverage technology.

Medical errors caused by mishandled diagnostic tools within the electronic health record join EHR-exacerbated physician burnout on the group's annual list of Top 10 concerns.

The Center for Clinical Artificial Intelligence, created by Cleveland Clinic Enterprise Analytics, will innovate new advances and applications for AI and machine learning in healthcare.

Working with a cardiac monitoring platform from Eko, the health system is validating algorithms to help more accurately screen for valvular damage with a digital stethoscope.

Despite understanding the big ROI that can come from supply chain analytics, too many health systems aren't efficiently or effectively making use of their operational insights, a new study shows.

With the RTLS hardware and software system in place, the medical group also has seen a 50 percent increase in face-to-face time with care teams and a 60 percent reduction in the number of steps taken by medical assistants daily.

A new survey of hospital clinicians finds that care teams "pervasively" use electronic health record workarounds at critical points of care.