Quality and Safety
Electronic Health Records
The Controlled Substance App for IllumiCare's Smart Ribbon technology helps address a "blind spot" with prescription drug monitoring programs officials say.
Analytics
The open source machine learning technology is applied to CT scans and can assist physicians in better analyzing lung cancer, potentially saving lives.
Quality & Safety
Begin by eliminating the false sense of safety that manual reporting produces and, from there, target these key areas.
Electronic Health Records
The American Medical Association and MedStar Health examined how physicians used Cerner and Epic electronic health records, and found a lot variability that could impact safety.
Our next-gen series dives into what’s coming on the near horizon from the very experts shaping the future of healthcare.
Analytics
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposes a new rule to combat note bloat, improve patient safety, advanced analytics and enable IT innovation.
Analytics
Health Catalyst announced a new surveillance module for its Patient Safety Monitor suite that aims to help hospitals protect patient safety by deploying predictive analytics to monitor, predict and prevent inpatient risk.
Accountable Care
Organization plans to expand beyond MSSP with new commercial contracts, Medicare Advantage contracts, and commercial ACO products with other payers.
Population Health
Organizations are each expanding services to address non-medical factors that can have a significant impact on individual and population health.
Electronic Health Records
Industry groups like easier quality reporting and advance applications of telehealth, but some say docs shouldn't have to make expensive EHR upgrades for 2019.