Quality and Safety
Electronic Health Records
Absent more rigorous federal regs, Pew Charitable Trusts, MedStar Health and AMA offer model test cases to help vendors and providers detect potentially dangerous usability risks.
Quality & Safety
Several news stories have questioned what reported struggles with the cognitive platform mean for the larger idea of AI in healthcare.
Population Health
With a GitHub site coming and new developer challenges, the agencies are the latest to engage the developer community.
Electronic Health Records
The digitization initiative in the remote and rural Northern Territory is implementing InterSystems technology to improve quality and access for the area's underserved population.
Analytics
Wanting to reduce its hospital-acquired infections, Denver Health Medical Center implemented an electronic hand hygiene monitoring system – and improved its adherence rate from 40 percent to 70 percent.
Revenue Cycle
Risk science is an emerging requirement for value-based care and population health programs.
Analytics
A proof of concept on one IT vendor's approach matched 87 percent of duplicate records.
Electronic Health Records
The ability to view information on a patient's 10 previous ED visits across different health systems saved on unneeded imaging tests and prevented the prescription of narcotics, one physician said.
Compliance
Just one year after it settled with the DOJ for $155 million, OIG dinged the cloud-based EHR vendor for violating the settlement terms in its corporate integrity agreement.
Quality & Safety
Institute says technology can help guard against medical errors if hospitals implement it well.