Quality and Safety

As artificial intelligence and machine learning are deployed more widely and consequentially across healthcare and elsewhere, "it is vital that we address safety, security and equity concerns."

"There is now a robust, extensive and dynamic virtual care option for patients that did not exist prior to the pandemic," its IT director of telehealth reports.

Elad Benjamin, general manager at Clinical Data Services at Philips, sheds light on findings from the latest Philips Future Health Index report, including the effects of staff shortages on healthcare.

Strategies for protecting clinicians across the industry.

With Google, Meta and others pushing the envelope in artificial intelligence research, Chirag Shah, professor at the iSchool at the University of Washington, talks about some practical and ethical considerations.

The VA Office of Inspector General cites nearly 150 adverse events connected to a routing glitch, and says "insufficient mitigations" and "continued risk to patient safety" leave it with big concerns about the so-called "unknown queue."

It has amassed more than 13 billion elements of clinical and claims data, and offers several products and services for healthcare providers and payers, state government agencies, federal government agencies, and other stakeholders.

Ann Mond Johnson, CEO of the American Telemedicine Association, offers a deep dive into a variety of telehealth topics, including the ATA's CEO Advisory Group on Using Telehealth to Eliminate Disparities and Inequities.

The joint advisory from CISA, the FBI and the Treasury Department warns of state-sponsored cybercriminals using Maui malware to target hospitals and public health agencies.