Quality and Safety

For every 100 Americans, there were 58 opioid prescriptions written in 2017 -- a high number considering the scope of the opioid epidemic.

Winners of AsiaPac19 awards talk about what the recognition means to them, their organizations and the larger mission of healthcare transformation of the region.

Patients who self-identified as black were 9% less likely to be admitted to specialized cardiac care units.

Wasteful spending is an increasingly thorny problem in healthcare, especially with the industry comprising an ever-larger portion of GDP.

Providers must align resources and optimize technology around workflows, not the other way around, says Partners HealthCare Director of Research Dr. Adrian Zai.

Rather than the annual Connected Health Conference, the Personal Connected Health Alliance and HIMSS will be prioritizing smaller, more curated events next year, say HIMSS' Kerry Amato and the PCHA's Robert Havasy.

Clinician burnout isn’t a new problem, but it appears to be getting worse due to factors that are inherent in today’s healthcare system.

Among the gaps for both types of facilities are a lack of best practices for patient care and inadequate monitoring of board certifications.

Cris Ross, CIO at the Mayo Clinic, says his organization's new 10-year partnership with Google Cloud aims to look for the next breakthroughs that diagnose and treat complex and serious illness or conditions more effectively.

HIMSS Media editorial team members discuss the top takeways from the Connected Health Conference in Boston, including the changing role of healthcare payers, the challenges of behavior change, worrying digital health adoption stats and more.