Quality and Safety
A pioneering trial between Singapore and Japan has proven that it is feasible.
New artificial intelligence capabilities aim to unify healthcare analytics in one common architecture, while machine learning and generative AI-driven expansions in Azure enhance digital transformation and improve clinical workflows, the company says.
Dr. Ben Zaniello, chief medical officer of PointClickCare, explains three pathways to consider to achieve whole person care and shares his personal experiences engaging SDOH on post-acute care coordination.
The agency seeks to draw on outside expertise to "ensure we appropriately apply our regulatory authority in a way that protects patient health while continuing to support innovation," says the director of its Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
The technology also helps care teams to standardize patient education and care pathways, while more consistently collecting patient-reported outcomes and other data across its spine, joint and sports medicine service lines, says its orthopedic surgery chief.
The risk management and certification group says the program, touted as the first of its kind, aims to offer a CSF-based strategy to deploy trustworthy models.
The initiative also provides savings in the form of signing bonuses the hospital would have had to pay out for new staff. And it saved $7 million on travel nurses. Further, nurse satisfaction has improved significantly, its chief digital officer says.
Numerous telehealth flexibilities allowed under the pandemic will need to be decided on a more permanent basis, ATA says.
Carol Ann Hudson of health system Lifepoint Health and AdvantagePoint ACOs offers some of her experiences as a woman executive in healthcare (and the space program) and dives deep into the new Electronic Clinical Quality Measures.
Several years in the making, involving nearly 30,000 caregivers and more than 6,000 support personnel, the massive effort will help the health system streamline care through a unified patient record, says its CIO Robert Eardley.
