Quality and Safety

National University Hospital CMIO Dr Ling Zheng Jye outlines the changes necessary for the National University Health System to effectively use data to bring forth innovations in quality and patient safety.

Healthcare IT security expert Danielle Morrison explains how IT outage recovery, downtime and disruption costs some independent and senior care providers "tens of thousands of dollars per minute" and compromises patient safety and care quality.

The three-hospital healthcare alliance's "Lines and Drains" EHR analytics project achieved 100% compliance in documentation across all locations, up from 20%. And the time to compile reports dropped from 50 hours to under four.

New this month: Smart technology collaborations aim to enhance inpatient care, promote patient coordination and reduce clinical burdens with advanced AI.

Virtual sitting supports continuous patient safety when bedside observation is needed. The 51-hospital health system narrowed its choices down to two very different models. The telemedicine chief offers a deep dive into this competition.

At HIMSS26, Greg O'Neill, director of patient and family health education at ChristianaCare, discusses increasing health literacy to bring changes to medical practice and help patients understand their medications.

So says Ryan M. Cameron, Children's Nebraska's newly minted chief information and innovation officer. He says provider organizations should pursue a small set of agentic AI projects – not as pilots for innovation's sake, but as fixes for concrete problems.

After careful research, the hospital changed its practices – and was able to eliminate nearly 500 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions last year alone. A pediatric anesthesiologist describes how the HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7 facility achieved this feat.

CustoMED uses 3D printing to create patient-specific surgical instruments designed to precisely match each patient's anatomy. Dr. Amit Zabtani, the company’s cofounder and chief medical officer and an orthopedic surgeon at UCLA, explains.

With artificial intelligence projects underway nationwide, many health systems are seeing success, but some are stuck in the infamous trough of disillusionment. The pre-conference forum will offer practical tips to help maintain forward momentum.