Quality and Safety

Coverage for midwives and doulas could go a long way in covering maternity deserts.

Companies, including FDB and Elsevier, highlight the latest products they hope will transform the healthcare industry.

In addition to hopes for a Senate telehealth bill passage, HIMSS is focusing on the European Health Data Space, public health infrastructure modernization and more, says Tom Leary, senior VP and head of government relations at HIMSS.

Bob Dupuis, SVP of operations at Arcadia, believes that making security integral takes knowledge of risks, including targeted phishing.

Numan Chief Medical Strategy Officer Sam Shah says there is not enough capacity to meet demand globally in this post-COVID-19 world. So, there is a need to create meaningful services that are accessible and make better use of existing resources, he adds.  

Dr. Joel Diamond of 2bPrecise talks about precision medicine moving into the mainstream, including pharmacogenomics in primary care and genetic insights for specialty care.  

General manager at Clinical Data Services at Philips, Elad Benjamin, highlights the latest Philips Future Health Index report, including staff shortages' effects on patient care.

Hannah Galvin, MD, chief medical information officer at Cambridge Health Alliance, discusses implementing patient privacy, interoperability and health equity by balancing granular data segmentation and patient-driven consent-management tools.  

Oncology AI company Ronin vice president of data science Christine Swisher gives thoughts on  the continuous monitoring of model performance, "garbage in, garbage out," provider-facing dashboards and "AI drift."  

CIO of Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital in the Virgin Islands Gregory Bryant explains how the pandemic changed workflow and offers tips on dealing with cybersecurity attacks.