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Quality and Safety

By Bill Siwicki | 10:59 am | December 28, 2022
One analysis found overall, inpatient and/or observational admissions dropped by 30%, readmissions decreased by 46%, and total costs of care fell by 20%.
By Andrea Fox | 10:44 am | December 28, 2022
The CGO will advance the county’s Aging Roadmap by helping to improve the coordination of health and social services and the detection, diagnosis and management of age-related diseases.
By HIMSS TV | 07:00 am | December 28, 2022
Understanding people's health engagement behaviors is key to pushing them to manage their own health, says Praveen Deorani, senior data scientist at the Singapore Ministry of Health's Office of Healthcare Transformation.
By Andrea Fox | 12:47 pm | December 27, 2022
Leveraging AI, machine learning and neural networks can help healthcare standardize data, comply with info blocking requirements and improve health outcomes.
By Bill Siwicki | 11:45 am | December 27, 2022
The goal is to advance patient safety nationally by studying and scaling telehealth as a proactive safety tool and enhance its safe use within the diverse communities served by connected care.
By Mike Restuccia | 11:36 am | December 27, 2022
The CIO of Penn Medicine says 2023 will be another year of significant change, requiring organizations to display nimbleness and teamwork to execute their strategic plans.
By HIMSS TV | 07:00 am | December 27, 2022
Grace Chang, cofounder and CEO of Kintsugi, explains how clinicians can identify signs of clinical depression and anxiety in everyday health conversations with the use of voice biomarker technology and machine learning assessments.
By Mike Miliard | 12:03 pm | December 22, 2022
But "hard work continues, as we persist in pressing telehealth permanency and creating a lasting roadblock to the telehealth cliff," the group said.
By Andrea Fox | 04:43 am | December 20, 2022
A new KLAS report examines which PM vendors best deliver on customers’ expectations for midsize and large practices, and for independent and owned practices, with athenaIDX, Epic and NextGen receiving high marks. 
By Andrea Fox | 12:36 pm | December 15, 2022
The study of 35 million telehealth visits found that most patients did not require in-person visits within 90 days of online appointments, indicating virtual visits as an effective "alternative, rather than duplicative" care modality.