Quality and Safety

As machine learning rapidly expands into healthcare, the ways it "learns" may be at odds with clinical outcomes unless carefully controlled for, a new study shows.

The health system's Physician Services Group worked with IT leadership to help aggregate EHR prescribing data and make it available to its providers.

California Correctional Health Care Services takes home the 2018 Davies Award of Excellence Community for its work using IT to reduce hospitalizations for high-risk patients.

The Gary and Mary West Emergency Department is designed specially for geriatric patients who may be fragile and confused upon entering an ER.

Digital Sample Manager leverages distributed ledger technology to bring improved visibility, transparency and tracking to the chain of custody in clinical trials.

The tool will combine Experian's patient ID management technology with Change's nationwide Intelligent Healthcare Network.

After the provider organization implemented its new patient experience and engagement program along with digitized rounding, HCAHPS scores jumped 30 points.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center will leverage GE technology to improve its use of immunotherapy data for cancer treatment.  

Tamper-proof distributed ledger tech helps with efficiency, security, integrity and visibility of pharmacy and other supply chain data. And because it doesn't necessarily involve PHI, it may be a logical place for hospitals to start exploring.