Why Staff Safety is the Foundation of Clinical Excellence
When healthcare staff feel unsafe, they are more likely to feel overwhelmed and distracted, increasing their risk of error. This directly links provider safety to patient safety.
Building Safer Healthcare Environments through Human Factors and Ergonomics
Human Factors and Ergonomics (HF/E) play a major role, acting as a bridge between the human element and the healthcare system. Creating a work environment where human potential flourishes, and where technology serves as a seamless extension of our ability to care.
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Inside an Automated Healthcare Practice: Redesigning Care Around People, Not Paperwork
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
Study: Hospital M&A doesn’t improve patient care
The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed a decline in patient experience after hospitals had merged.
CMS debuts AI competition focused on health outcomes and quality of care
CMS has partnered with the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to award up to $1.65 million to selected participants.
Catholic Health Initiatives VP on how data and analytics can impact patient care
In a phone interview, Jim Reichert, CHI's vice president of clinical analytics, discussed how the system measures quality, safety and patient experience metrics across its facilities.
Stop talking about ‘quality’ healthcare if you don’t deliver it
Having insurance only means that someone else will pick up part of the tab, not that the care would be of high quality. And the U.S. certainly has had nothing close to the greatest healthcare in the world, just the most expensive.
Where Will AI Deployment Benefit Payers the Most?
We are taking a look at how health insurers are using AI, defining success, and managing cybersecurity risks. Give us your opinions by completing our brief, anonymous survey.
Trump picks David Shulkin, an Obama appointee, to run VA
In naming a new secretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs, President-elect Donald Trump has done something he had previously avoided while filling out his Cabinet: choose an insider. The pick also is notable because Shulkin is an Obama administration appointee.
Children’s National looks to commercialize innovations from Bear Institute
With the help of electronic health records vendor Cerner, Washington, D.C.-based Children's National Health System is preparing to commercialize some of its projects from the Bear Institute.
Does Your Technology Improve Patient Care & Outcomes?
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 […]
American Diabetes Association acquires quality improvement organization
The ADA has worked with iMD for five years to develop Diabetes INSIDE, a quality improvement initiative that works with healthcare systems, educators and patients to improve health outcomes for diabetics.
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Top 7 Modern AI-Powered EAP Providers for Global Workforces in 2026
Discover the top AI-powered EAP providers for 2026. Compare platforms like Kyan Health and Spring Health on triage speed, global reach, and clinical quality to transform workforce wellbeing.
Study: Telemedicine sucks as much as in-person care
Telemedicine proponents have argued for years that virtual care is at least as effective as in-person care delivered in a traditional clinical setting. Based on new research, they may be more right than they had thought.
Here’s your MACRA primer (and don’t worry, it doesn’t ‘kill’ Meaningful Use)
The best way to view MACRA is as an evolution - not an end to - Meaningful Use.
While you were eating, CMS updated Medicare quality strategy
Right on cue, an HHS agency dropped some news just as everyone was taking off for a long weekend. This time, the CMS waited until just before Thanksgiving to update its strategy for moving away from fee-for-service payments.
Poor quality, not bundled payments, is the real problem
It doesn't get more ignorant than this headline that appeared on the KevinMD blog Wednesday: "Bundled payments means the death of quality medical care."
Why today’s performance measures damage quality of care
People are manipulating the stats or just don't know what they're talking about.