Quality and Safety

Physicians, nurses and patients have embraced the health system's smart rooms, which, along with virtual nursing, have helped slash nursing turnover at one hospital from 23% in July 2024 to 14% this month.

Use of artificial intelligence to translate patient chart notes into a reader-friendly format is showing promise, says Dr. Jonah Zaretsky, medical director at NYU Langone Hospital Brooklyn.

Hospital IT chiefs from the region also discussed insurance coverage for AI-related risks.

As European healthcare data regulations evolve, Alexander Berler, IHE Catalyst's strategic business development director, says adopting its integration profiles can help vendors ensure their tools meet interoperability standards.

Additional results include a 30% improvement in MRI imaging turnaround time, an 83% reduction in patient placement time and a 28% decrease in post-anesthesia care unit holds, among other successes.

An Advent Health hospital is seeking to order Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City to pay $2 million for denied claims related to documented diagnoses, and to stop using clinical validation models to deny payments.

Before the CYLCOMED AI cybersecurity initiative launched its pilot at Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, research and health data scientist Diana Ferro says it developed a framework prioritizing patient safety and compliance.

Dr. Matt Crowson, the genAI expert at Wolters Kluwer Health, dives into the company's new survey of caregivers and execs on the technology and explains where hospitals and health systems need to do the work of getting it up and running properly.

Although the learning curve for AI tools is steep, MSD's Matt Studney discusses how the company guides teams through change management and how it mitigates risk with human-in-the-loop feedback and ethics committee reviews.

The burden then shifts to hospitals, which puts clinicians in a tough spot, relying on AI that might not generalize, with no real way to track performance or course correct – that's an unacceptable blind spot, says one healthcare AI governance expert.