Quality and Safety

Armin Scheuer, VP of Business Development International at HIMSS, shares how Germany has pioneered prescribing apps to patients within their normal care setting, in the form of DiGAs, a system France will replicate.

The move, the health system says, is intended to control costs without compromising access to care.

The goal is that the technology platform will enable higher quality care and better patient experiences at a lower cost.   

Lobbies for doctors and dentists in California say insurers should foot the bill for pandemic expenses.

Rebecca Sulfridge, clinical pharmacy specialist, emergency medicine, at Covenant HealthCare, shares how using AI to check medication histories helped limit face-to-face contact during COVID-19.

The rehabilitation unit will help adults who have experienced a loss of function due to stroke, brain injury or other conditions.

The pill is for adults who are at risk for progressing to severe COVID-19 and/or hospitalization.

Amit Trivedi, director of Informatics & Health IT Standards at HIMSS, says healthcare data is becoming more interoperable, liquid and usable across the ecosystem.

Digital solutions can help healthcare organizations use data to meet patients' needs for personalized service while following privacy regulations, explain Adobe's Tom Swanson and Anil Chakravarthy and CommonSpirit Health's Adam Rice.

UHC, Humana and Kaiser Permanente all ranked highly as the number with 5 stars plans tripled this year compared to 2020.