Quality and Safety

Bruce Steinberg, executive vice president of HIMSS International, discusses HIMSS' role helping digital health challenges that are common around the globe and how HIMSS helps facilitate deep dives into the most topical issues in each region.

Southeast Health Medical Center is making the case for the potential impact of AI on reducing hospital-acquired infections like sepsis, CAUTIs, and pressure ulcers.

More and more healthcare disciplines and specialties are increasing quality and safety training for their own professionals.

Implementation of these programs was not associated with reductions in device-associated CAUTI rates.

LFS patients who received early cancer surveillance extended their lifetime, but incurred higher healthcare costs.

Policymakers and health system leaders seeking to increase value should consider increasing investments in primary care.

CMS had hoped the threat of penalties would focus more attention on improving care quality, but most of the changes have been to coding practices.

Tiesong Zhang, president of China's Kunming Children's Hospital, discusses the hospital's use of IT to improve quality, safety and efficiency - and achieve Stage 7 of the EMRAM.

The technology is still maturing, but already can be used to make sense of social determinants data -- a must in modern care delivery.

The program used electronic "nudges" to clinical staff to forgo overnight vitals and medications as well as clinical staff education on improving patient sleep.