Quality and Safety

The health system’s Cedars-Sinai Connect primary care application has been especially effective, says CIO Craig Kwiatkowski, who describes how he measures an app’s success and how his team is protecting against AI biases.

Also, IHH Healthcare is now offering AI-based sleep monitoring solutions.

Craig Kwiatkowski is calibrating the pace of the health system's artificial intelligence adoption to ensure it's deploying generative AI safely and responsibly.

Craig Kwiatkowski is taking the FAVES approach: fair, appropriate, valid, effective and safe. He says this also helps from an adoption perspective.  

Mette Maria Skjøth, RN, department head at the Dermatology and Allergy Centre of Denmark's Odense University Hospital, discusses potential uses for AI tools, including early detection of sepsis and infectious diseases.

As cyberattacks increase in scope and intensity, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange is asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies to do more to help health systems maintain operational continuity.

The system provides the data insights that enable the organization to close underutilized clinics and redirect patients to others nearby. Additionally, the finance teams have whittled down rent reporting from two months to a week.

Marco Marchetti, head of the HTA operational unit at AGENAS, says the country is introducing artificial intelligence to assist physicians in analyzing large volumes of clinical data from digital applications and medical devices.

Dr. Gauri Puri, chief business officer for healthcare at WNS, a global business process management company, offers a deep dive that can lead IT leaders at hospitals and health systems on the road to digital success.

As part of its annual renegotiation of the agency's EHR modernization efforts, three senators are asking the Veterans Affairs to add more opportunities to hold the vendor responsible for the quality and safety of its deployments.