Quality and Safety

His Excellency Awadh Seghayer Al Ketbi, Assistant Undersecretary for Support Services at Ministry of Health & Prevention in the UAE, details the government's AI strategy to improve outcome for patients and clinical staff.

The goals of consumerism and patient-centered care can be at odds, and the former may not be as effective in reducing costs as people thought.

Mike Fuller, regional managing director at InterSystems, declares that shaping the future of healthcare IT requires an understanding of common problems and solving them in a whole health economy.

A greater proportion of women were able to find affordable access to acute and preventive services, as well as insurance coverage.

The star algorithm fails to fully capture the typical observation that higher surgical volume is associated with better quality outcomes.

Thoracic surgeons are often reluctant to discharge patients on an accelerated time frame for fear of harm or readmission risk.

Almost 40 percent of workers made errors in removing personal protective equipment -- PPE -- including gowns and gloves.

The strike, if it happens would affect more than 10,000 nurses and would likely prove costly for the systems involved.

Digital health progress is being made at the state level, according to Jim Douglas, former Vermont governor and co-chair of HIMSS State Advisory Roundtable, and Cynthia Green-Edwards, chief compliance officer with the state of Michigan.

The new model could reduce the burden for at least half of all safety net hospitals as they care for patients regardless of insurance status or ability to pay.