Reducing diagnostic error is a significant part of healthcare organizations’ efforts to improve patient outcomes. By using data to recognize vulnerabilities in the diagnostic process, empowering their diagnostic teams and fostering an environment where every team player understands their vital role organizations can proactively correct the potential root causes of diagnostic errors.
During a keynote address at HIMSS, Hackensack Meridian Health CEO Robert Garrett outlined four priorities that should guide healthcare organizations' AI strategies. He said that healthcare leaders need to take care to ensure their AI efforts seek to address one if not all of these.
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
By evaluating the potential of healthcare operations software investments to affect each of these three key outcomes areas — patient outcomes, workforce outcomes, and risk and compliance outcomes — CIOs can make informed decisions that drive value and improve outcomes for patients, providers, and the entire organization.
Savvy patients. Customer reviews. Increasing choices. It’s easy for medical device brands to view dramatic shifts like these in the market as problems. However, adaptable companies will find that this scenario presents an opportunity to harness the power of quality patient insights for a highly competitive edge.
Using the company's nH Predict tool, clinicians are better able to predict a patient's outcomes and generate a personalized post-acute care plan.
Reaching your patients through the technology they already use is key to patient engagement, and email and text are the most effective way to reach patients of all ages.
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
Patients who saw a female doctor were less likely to die within 30 days of leaving the hospital. They were also less likely to get readmitted within a one-month span of their initial discharge, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Just 18 percent of hospitals always consult patient-reported outcomes when making clinical decisions and setting care guidelines, according to a survey of hospital executives.
The 2015 Medicare Access CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) outlines plans to overhaul reimbursements to physicians, based in part on their ability to provide quality care and to improve patient experience and outcomes. One of the main goals the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has for MACRA is for individual healthcare providers to use technology […]
The best way to view MACRA is as an evolution - not an end to - Meaningful Use.
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
Preparing for the CMS Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Project The most important takeaway from the latest CMS effort to rein in costs, achieve positive patient outcomes and lower hospital readmission rates and complication rates is that hospitals must now manage the entire episode of care. CMS’s Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CCJR) bundled-payment program mandates […]
“An eighty-two-year-old man developed fainting episodes. His tests showed severe blockages in three coronary arteries and both carotid arteries. The doctors recommended doing a cardiac-bypass operation as soon as possible, followed by surgery to open up one of his carotid arteries.” A detailed account of his story is written in The New Yorker article titled Overkill […]