Quality and Safety

In a preview of his HIMSS23 session, Christopher Girardo, fellow, clinical informatics/PRN staff, pathology, at LSU Health Shreveport and Ochsner Health, dives into health IT's role in fighting sepsis.

The University of Kansas Health System has boosted overall block utilization by 20% total, prime time by almost 5% total and overall volume by 8% – all with a 7% reduction in available room.

The Coalition for Health AI's guide takes a patient-centric approach and aims to address, among other challenges, barriers to trust in AI and machine learning. It builds on the White House's AI Bill of Rights and NIST's' AI Risk Management Framework.

At HIMSS23, Ken Mandl and Don Rucker will show how the SMART/HL7 spec can enable better performance tracking, public health surveillance, pharma safety and clinical research.

By analyzing crowdsourced patient experience data with NLP, it's possible to enhance care quality measurement and reporting, says Jennifer Gaudet Hefele, senior scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton, a speaker at HIMSS23.

Some wins so far? Huge reductions in patient falls and increases in HCAHPS patient satisfaction scores.

The Veterans Health Administration is turning to virtual reality to better understand patient feedback, hoping to foster wider appreciation for the "the empathic care our veterans deserve."

Juan Nanez, a speaker at HIMSS23 and director of Programs at Paso del Norte Health Information Exchange, says when clinicians can access past patient history to guide decisions, hospital readmissions and ER visits decrease.