Quality and Safety
Better EHRs deliver better outcomes. They also protect patients and providers, fuel powerful research and much more. But health systems face many challenges managing data across care settings – one expert offers guidance.
Cybersecurity leaders from Intermountain, UCLA Medical and SoNE Health discuss the "delicate balance" of educating hospital staff – not just to avoid phishing tricks, but to gain understanding and appreciation for day-to-day cyber hygiene.
"Nurses cannot be everywhere at once," says one expert in video monitoring, who sees promise in "watching AI" helping overworked RNs track patterns in hospital patients over longer periods of time to gain insights into their health trajectory.
HIMSS Davies Award winner Texas Children's Hospital’s assistant VPs Tarra Kerr and Ashok Kurian discuss their patient-centered coordinated care, enabled by a partnership between quality and safety departments, clinical operations and IT systems.
Ryan Sousa, vice president of data and analytics/AI at Pivot Point Consulting, discusses what the data problem heralds for the future of HIT, and talks AI and the right to health.
John Riggi, national advisor for cybersecurity and risk at the American Hospital Association, sees a fraught cyber threat landscape that's being transformed by artificial intelligence. He previews his keynote at the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum.
IT leaders need to take a step back and ensure they are truly prepared to use large language models, says one computer scientist who offers detailed deployment advice.
Dr. John Busigin, Covenant Health's Advanced Care at Home medical director, said that 20-30% of patients who traditionally received high acuity care at hospitals could receive virtual care through the program.
At the HIMSS 2023 Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum, Dr. Christian Dameff, medical director of cybersecurity for the University of California San Diego, will address bringing all stakeholders to the table to talk about protecting care quality.
Noninvasive diagnostics are the life's work of Ron Erickson, founder of Know Labs. He explains radio frequency technology and how it could change the course of diabetes care.