Quality and Safety

Dr. Melek Somai describes the Wisconsin health system's efforts to expand its integration of artificial intelligence into workflows and care processes – from streamlining patient scheduling to providing personalized preventive care recommendations.

CitiusTech claims that most genAI proof of concepts is delayed due to the lack of trust.

2017 saw Houston Methodist Coordinated Care Medicare Accountable Care Organization in the 40th percentile in some of the CMS ACO quality metrics. Today it's in the 90th. Physicians also have received CMS shared savings based on their quality percentile performance.

Srini Iyer, CTO at Leidos Health & Civil Sector, previews his HIMSS24 session by discussing the potential of domain-specific AI to revolutionize healthcare by delivering more accurate, efficient and cost-effective care.

With help from a new point-of-care tool, even its lowest-performing clinics for diabetic retinopathy have met their retinal exam percentage completion goal.

When is it time to optimize an EHR? Where is the best place to start? Who should be involved? Peyman Zand, chief strategy officer at consulting firm CereCore and a former provider CIO, has the answers to these questions and many more.

The healthcare workforce should prepare for a "once-in-a-century revolution," a labor law expert says, with artificial intelligence poised to directly impact the way nurses and other healthcare professionals do their jobs.

Also, WA Country Health Service is looking for a technology provider for its Virtual Care service.

"With improved monitoring and measurement capabilities, we have been better equipped to understand the dynamics of falls, identify trends and implement targeted interventions," says a nursing leader at the North Carolina health system.

The nonprofit group's Interoperable Secure Cloud Fax Consensus Body aims to add cross-platform identity assurance, standards-based metadata exchange and new federated security standards to facsimile exchange.