Quality and Safety

Industry-defined limitations can help ensure an accelerated path to adoption by protecting providers from algorithm failures that could cause counter-evolutionary overreactions to artificial intelligence usage, says one CTO.

Ryan Oliver, research director at KLAS, shows how Best in KLAS status leads to successful implementations. Additionally, he offers a deep dive into some of the most important implementation best practices for provider organizations.

Also, the South Korean government is helping expedite the approval of a VR-based therapy for treating visual impairment.

The new offering could help healthcare customers build, deploy and manage customized Azure-based artificial intelligence applications for large language models using more than 100 NVIDIA AI frameworks and tools.

Combined practice management tools have also helped the applied behavioral analysis clinic, which serves a healthcare desert, increase client progress and enhance staff efficiency.

While the World Health Organization says it's "enthusiastic about the appropriate use" of large language models such as ChatGPT, it has deep concerns about artificial intelligence being used in "safe, effective, and ethical ways."

"We're aiming to cut through the buzz around AI in healthcare to prove the promise and positive impact of this exciting technology for improving patient outcomes."

Verana Health uses large amounts of structured and unstructured de-identified patient data, including medical images, to inform value-based care models, explains Lawrence Whittle, CCO.

The agency says it is reviewing a deluge of comments on its February proposed rulemaking ending telehealth prescriptions for certain controlled substances. It's unclear how far this new extension will last beyond the end of the PHE.

Its new Hospital Safety Grade report shows rates of healthcare-associated infections CLABSI, MRSA and CAUTI with double-digit increases. Meanwhile, safety-related patient experience ratings have declined.