By Jamie Leachman RN BSN – When it comes to advancing Veteran care, effectively assessing patients when they leave hospitals can play a vital role in reducing readmissions. A recent NIH study found that hospital readmissions within 30 days point to potential care quality issues, along with increased mortality risks.
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Joshua Liu MD explains 6 ways to get your health system peers bought-in to digital health.
By Kim Boyd – In an era where data fluidity is transforming healthcare, life sciences manufacturers must stay attuned to evolving Health IT policies given that many of these policies have downstream effects on life sciences and access to expanded deidentified and aggregated datasets.
By Alex Kontur – Often functioning behind the scenes, standards play an enormous role in our daily lives. Nearly every aspect of our modern world is shaped by standards, including our homes (building codes, electrical outlets), cars (safety requirements, fuel efficiency), and the food we eat (nutrition labels).
By Jay Nakashima & A. John Blair III MD -Trust is essential when it comes to accessing health care data. That is why we have been so consistently laser-focused on trust and “getting it right” for the patient as we’ve launched a new government-sponsored health data exchange framework.
By Devin Partida – Health care is witnessing a surge in IT innovations, from telemedicine to electronic health records management to AI integrations. Providing adequate training to adapt to these advancements is necessary to ensure staff can harness their full potential in enhancing patient outcomes and operational efficiency.
Joshua Liu MD explains why AI and automation can’t solve everything for healthcare providers.
By Matthew Fisher – The Office for Civil Rights continues to dig into reports about delayed access to records by covered entities. The initial flurry of resolutions from many years ago now has not necessarily resulted in a significant change of behavior, which is frankly a bit surprising.
By Venky Chellappa PhD – The book “Finite and Infinite Games” by James P. Carse, although published in 2013, long before things like COVID or even AI invaded our public consciousness, the book’s message sticks with me and applying it to healthcare.