Quality and Safety

Amit Trivedi, director of Informatics & Health IT Standards at HIMSS, says healthcare data is becoming more interoperable, liquid and usable across the ecosystem.

Digital solutions can help healthcare organizations use data to meet patients' needs for personalized service while following privacy regulations, explain Adobe's Tom Swanson and Anil Chakravarthy and CommonSpirit Health's Adam Rice.

UHC, Humana and Kaiser Permanente all ranked highly as the number with 5 stars plans tripled this year compared to 2020.

The request for EUA will be considered October 26 by the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee. 

The settlement stems from an accusation that the hospital failed to provide timely auxiliary aids and services for a deaf patient.

The juli app helps providers and patients manage complex conditions such as asthma, depression, bipolar disorder, migraine and chronic pain using formerly siloed data, says juli.co CEO Bettina Hein.

Patientory CEO Chrissa McFarlane says her company's population health, data analytics and patient engagement app is built on a decentralized blockchain network.

For acute care and critical access hospitals, infection control was a significant focus in 2020 as standards were updated.

Technology can help patients unify their health records, says Medchart founder and CEO James Bateman.

Booster increases protection to 94% against moderate to severe COVID-19 in the U.S., J&J says.