Quality and Safety

In the new peer-to-peer learning forum, participating organizations will test using FHIR standards to exchange information about social determinants of health in primary care

They're researching how AI-enabled messaging and text-based interventions can help maternal care teams support patients at home between visits.

The goal is to help healthcare organizations "remediate vulnerabilities before equipment reaches the patient floor."

"We've been able to minimize interruptions to hospital operations and patient care, foster ongoing healthcare innovations with AI and analytics, and allow clinicians to access medical data in seconds," a tech director says.

During Global Health Equity Week, HIMSS is calling on its members to contact senators and state governors to make policy changes preserving virtual care flexibilities and modernizing information and technology systems to improve perinatal healthcare.

DromosPTM is a specialty pharmacy software designed to help coordinate medications that need unique handling and distribution for rare conditions.

"From the care team point of view, this means less activity but more action, less documenting but better documentation, and better coordination but less coordinating," one expert explains.

Inbound Health, with $20 million from Flare Capital Partners, will help providers and health plans develop home-based acute care and skilled nursing models.

Using bioimpedance spectroscopy for surveillance can trigger early interventions that reverse lymphedema for at-risk breast patients, while wireless localizing devices and oncoplastic radiation markers improve surgery and radiation treatment.

Among other impacts, ending the PHE would represent access challenges and a loss of Medicaid coverage for millions, and would end medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder without an in-person exam