Will the Change Healthcare Outage Prod Execs to Make Technology Improvements?

As healthcare organizations across the country assess the damage caused by the Change Healthcare outage, executives are not only looking at the financial fallout but also the technological repercussions. In short, what will health systems need to do to make sure this doesn’t happen again—or if it does happen, that they have the resources in place to minimize damage?

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Giving Telehealth Its Due: How It Impacts Outcomes

There is a belief that virtual care providers are poised to establish standards of care that can even exceed in-person care, while helping hospital systems raise their quality and safety by strengthening existing teams, improving patient access, and ensuring patients can receive the timely care they need.

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Is Healthcare Innovating Its Way Back to Patient Engagement?

The HIMSS24 panel, titled “Moving Beyond EHR Engagement: Deploy Consumer-Centric Strategies That Truly Empower Communities,” took a closer look at how providers are making engagement work. They’re listening more to their patients, embracing remote patient monitoring, virtual care, wearables and home-based services, and targeting care management and coordination.

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Nutrition Labels: Ensuring Greater AI Transparency, Accountability in Healthcare

As we move full steam ahead into the artificial intelligence (AI) era, the healthcare industry is taking a cue from food and drug markets, slapping nutrition labels on AI-driven solutions, to share how they were trained and on what types of data. Nutrition labels in healthcare are intended to provide transparency to doctors, clinicians, and other health professionals so they can make informed decisions about how they use it.

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PSQH: The Podcast Episode 100 – The State of Virtual Healthcare

On episode 100 of PSQH: The Podcast, Frank McGillin, CEO at The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic, talks about the state of virtual care and how it can improve the quality of the patient experience. This episode is sponsored by Avtec, IAC and Origami Risk as part of PSQH’s activities for Patient Safety Awareness Week.

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How Does AI Impact Nursing?

AI is currently being implemented in many aspects of nursing, including documentation, admission and discharge processes, measuring and monitoring vitals, and data collection and analysis. However, the success of AI varies, and depends largely on proper implementation.

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