UK spending billions on health IT, remote patient monitoring
The plan includes hiring patient safety guru Dr. Robert Wachter of the University of California, San Francisco, to review IT infrastructure across the NHS.
Wachter: Digital health is now the norm, but it needs work
"In the last five years, we have gone from a primarily analog business to a primarily digital business," Dr. Robert Wachter said at AMIA 2015.
The Hidden Administrative Tasks Draining Small Practices
Small practices play a critical role in healthcare delivery, but they cannot continue to absorb ever-increasing administrative demands without consequences.
Wachter: Make hand hygiene, flu shots mandatory for clinicians
Patient safety advocates affiliated with the National Patient Safety Foundation have proposed instituting a set of "must-do" practices for all healthcare organizations.