Quality and Safety

Physicians need to work at seeking feedback from patients and meaningfully incorporating patient preferences into treatment plans.

The cost increases from other aspects of patient care cancel out the induction-related costs, contradicting long-held assumptions.

There's an opportunity for investors to address the longstanding epidemic while also netting good returns on their investments.

Previous risk models hadn't considered functional impairments, as they aren't generally available in registries and trials.

Biometrics can be used to foster interoperability, but questions about privacy and security need to be answered first, says Pew's HIT project director Ben Moscovitch.

Elena Bonfiglioli, Microsoft's Managing Director of Health and Life Sciences for Europe, Middle East and Africa, discusses a key to successful healthcare transformation: clinician tools that merge compliance with convenience.

TriHealth, winner of the HIMSS Davies Award, got all of its nursing and home care facilities documenting quality and utilization directly into its Epic EHR to determine the best outcomes and give patients solutions to make care decisions.

Medicare spends approximately $35 billion annually on care for beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease.

Avanti iHealth Partner Dr. Mark Roche says 20 years ago there were multiple competing standards and various maturity levels with healthcare interoperability.

This year's hospitals had better risk-adjusted outcomes, better patient satisfaction and a lower average cost per patient.