Scaling Autonomous AI in Healthcare Without Compromising Clinical Trust
AI in healthcare will not fail because the models are weak. It will stall when leaders hesitate to redesign how decisions are made, measured and governed.
FDA Transparency Push Expands to Monitoring Safety of Vaccines and Other Regulated Products
The FDA said consolidating safety reporting into a single platform, the Adverse Event Monitoring System (AEMS), will increase transparency and reduce costs. But like the legacy systems it replaces, AEMS reports are unverified so causation and frequency of events cannot be determined.
Beyond Analytics: How Sellers Dorsey is Hard-Coding Value into Medicaid Policy [Video]
How to turn analytics into actual policy outcomes.
Solving the Psychological Safety Problem in Healthcare
Safety threats impact more than what is physically visible. The emotional toll is crushing the healthcare workforce from the inside out, and until the erosion of psychological safety is addressed, the battle to combat workplace violence will continue.
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A Guide to the Best Disaster Recovery Solutions for Health Care Organizations
Here are the best disaster recovery solutions for health care organizations.
The Staffing Crisis Security Teams Aren’t Talking About: When Safety Concerns Drive Healthcare Worker Exodus
What many organizations haven't yet connected is how security decisions ripple through their entire financial picture, from recruitment to retention to operational efficiency.
How AI Is Reshaping Emergency Departments
We are building a more connected system that bridges acute and post-acute settings by uniting insights across the continuum. The insights empower clinicians with the information they need at the moment they need it, resulting in faster, safer, and more human-centered care.
The Power Behind Enterprise EHR Software for Large Healthcare Systems
Enterprise EHR boosts scalability, interoperability, and governance for large healthcare systems.
Healthcare Leadership Strategies to Prevent Workplace Violence
Workers deserve environments that protect their well-being, and patients deserve care from professionals who aren’t operating in fear.
How Can LLMs Be Deployed Safely in Healthcare?
Healthcare technology experts have confidence that the industry will put the right guardrails up around LLMs as it continues to develop and deploy these AI tools, they said Sunday during a panel discussion at Engage at HLTH.
Experts Release New Framework to Evaluate Digital Health Products
A group of healthcare researchers and health system leaders recently proposed a new framework to evaluate evidence for digital health products. The framework seeks to provide hospitals, payers and trade organizations with a clear set of steps they can use to determine whether or not a digital health product is evidence-based and therefore suitable for their company to adopt.
A whopping majority of surveyed workers at HCA say staffing shortage is “compromising patient care”
A survey by the Service Employees International Union found that 89% of polled nurses and healthcare workers at HCA Healthcare feel staff shortages at their hospital are hurting patients. Union leaders urged hospital leaders to urgently address the shortage.
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.
Surgical stapler misuse tops list of health technology hazards
Misuse of surgical staplers led the ECRI Institute's Top 10 Technology Hazards report for 2020. Earlier this year, the FDA revealed 11,181 serious injuries related to stapler incidents had been reported in the last decade.
How organizations should fuse health IT safety and patient safety
The Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety has unveiled a report that highlights a three-pronged approach for how organizations can make health IT safety a part of their overall safety initiatives.
Some dangerous hospitals fess up, others deflect blame
This week, Consumer Reports called out "12 hospitals you might want to avoid," and named names.
‘Gag clauses’ in EHR contracts said to bar safety reports
Physicians, hospitals and healthcare systems often are contractually barred from reporting on software glitches and other shortfalls in their EHRs that could lead to harmful or fatal medical errors, according to a newly published investigation.
Blame Canada
First, a disclosure. I am Canadian. Well, I’m actually a dual U.S. – Canadian citizen. I was born in Toronto to a U.S. parent and lived there until my family moved to California when I was 15. Among other things, that means that I have two passports and that my kids are also dual citizens. […]