Quality and Safety
The new rule also requires hospitals to provide COVID-19 cases and related data to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Communication technology should be viewed as part of personal protection equipment, says Vocera president and CEO Brent Lang.
The awards recognize the highest performing health centers as well as those that have made significant quality improvements from the year before.
Nearly one in four people aged 50 to 80 said they receive at least one medication by mail.
Blacks and Hispanics were the two groups most negatively affected, with wide gaps between population and hospitalization percentages.
Linguamatics Director of Clinical Analytics Dr. Elizabeth Marshall discusses data management and workflow challenges during a fast-changing pandemic - and describes how natural language processing can help.
Dr. Anders Tegnell, Sweden's state epidemiologist, said during FutureMed 2020 he supports the country's decision to keep schools open with social distancing guidance in place.
Fauci said early results in clinical trials have been promising, while contact-tracing efforts in the U.S. are improving.
From October 1, 2019 to April 4, the flu killed from 24,000 to 62,000 Americans and caused at least 410,000 hospitalizations, according to the CDC.
Marc Probst, longtime CIO at Intermountain Healthcare and new CIO at ELLKAY, talks about interoperability, telehealth and digital transformation - as well as the IT innovation he sees emerging from the COVID-19 crisis.