Quality and Safety

Cameron Deemer, president of DrFirst, explains how practical machine learning applications can help improve safety and efficiency - automating medication history in hospital EHRs and aggregating patient records in consumer apps.

The president's plan will benefit nonprofit hospitals by reducing the number of uninsured or underinsured patients, Moody’s says.

Professor Claudia Pagliari, director of global eHealth at the University of Edinburgh, says sharing data with local public health authorities will help us manage future pandemics more effectively, while also reducing health inequalities.

Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Ct.) is reintroducing a bill to help curb workplace violence in the healthcare sector to the 117th Congress next week.

Arcadia CMO Dr. Rich Parker says the company sends more than 1 million text messages in a frictionless outreach to close gaps in care.

The death toll from the pandemic is projected to climb to 500,000 by the end of February.

President Biden says the U.S. will soon be vaccinating 1.5 million people a day.

Proposed bill would create OSHA standards in an effort to protect employees.

One data-driven response requires the heads of all executive departments and agencies to share COVID-19 data with the coronavirus czar.

Biden is expected to issue a national mask mandate and create an office of COVID-19 response, headed by the new coronavirus czar.