At ViVE 2024, Tarun Kapoor — chief digital transformation officer at New Jersey-based Virtua Health — highlighted a conundrum he thinks may be the reason why AI hasn't been able to move the needle when it comes to solving the clinician shortage.
History has shown that while healthcare is more open to adopting technology to improve outcomes, bureaucracy, ego, money, or indifference to change still tend to get in the way. Technology is not our only problem unfortunately, healthcare has so many more. In this article, I put together some statistics that show we still have a […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Even with EHRs, notes are still written down on paper and some critical communication never happens between clinicians. To reduce medical errors, we need to keep improving our systems for collaboration.
"We’ve shown in a number of studies that every one point increase in burnout [as measured by a survey] increases the risk of a medical error in the next three months," said Dr. Tait Shanafelt, Stanford Medicine's chief wellness officer.
In an effort to reduce medical errors and potential misunderstandings, the New Jersey Innovation Institute is developing a "Master Person Index," which will serve as a master database of each New Jersey resident's health-related information.
Hospitals and health systems face multiple challenges as they transition away from fee-for-service models and toward value-based care. A new survey from EY dug deeper into this issue.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Did your hospital make the grade? The Leapfrog Group has unveiled its spring 2017 Hospital Safety Grade, and 823 hospitals got an A.
Programs to circumvent litigation by offering prompt disclosure, apology and compensation for mistakes as an alternative to malpractice suits are becoming more popular
“Instead of shutting down conversations with patients, we want to respond to them immediately, we want to share everything we can with them."
New research finds that the act of disclosure, combined with stress from the procedure gone wrong, can be an anxious experience for some doctors — and more training is needed to help them engage in these difficult conversations.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Frank Federico, a vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, has plenty of thoughts on this study.
The first lesson, obviously, is to say sorry. The other is to examine whether health IT may be compromising patient safety.
As ER doctors and nurses grapple with the transition to digitalized record systems, they seem to happen more frequently.
Perhaps it's not surprising that misdiagnosis, delayed diagnosis and other assessment-related issues were so prevalent in cardiology.
England's top health official on Tuesday publicly apologized on behalf of the National Health Service in the December 2014 death of 1-year-old William Mead.