Quality and Safety
Less than a quarter of newly certified paramedics are female, and only about 5 percent of EMTs self-identify as black.
Konstantin Hyppönen, chief architect at Kanta Services in Finland, discusses how better tools can enable patients to manage their own healthcare from home.
One of the largest private insurance plans to use population-based global budgets achieved success in slowing spending growth.
James Hawkins, director of strategy at NHS Digital, discusses how the NHS.UK platform provides users with an app that allows them to access their own records, book appointments, order prescriptions and do basic triage.
HIMSS CTIO Steve Wretling discusses the future of healthcare as well as the key issues, system applications and data outcomes the Health 2.0 Annual Conference brings to the forefront.
Children without insurance were 3.3 times more likely to be transferred than those covered under private insurance.
The health apps landscape is growing beyond just wellness management, says Liz Ashall-Payne, co-founder and CEO of ORCHA.
Augmented reality and virtual reality can play an "amazing" role in surgery, helping surgeons, patients and residents, says Tristan van Doormaal, a neurosurgeon at UMC Utrecht in the Netherlands.
Rural hospitals are particularly challenged in meeting the standards, with non meeting the volume standard for five of eight procedures.
True value-based care requires a holistic view of the patient that can only be achieved with robust data, an expert says.