Quality and Safety

Danielle Carroll, postdoctoral scholar and orthopaedic surgeon at UCSF, discusses the challenges of medical treatment in remote settings, including deep space, and how space health can learn from global health.

The effective use of technology is improving operational and clinical outcomes considerably, says Claus Duedal Pedersen, project manager at Odense University Hospital in Denmark.

Greg Besegai, regional director of RiskRecon, describes how his company helps healthcare organizations identify and focus on the mission-critical issues found in external systems.

Drew Glaser, postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Davis, talks about research with the Translational Research Institute for Space Health using microfluidics technology to simulate conditions that occur in space.

HIMSS European eHealth Survey findings include telemedicine's growing importance and why the Nordics and Dutch are digital health role models, say Jörg Studzinski, with HIMSS Analytics, and Jochen Messemer, with McKinsey & Company.

While Germany is seeing progress with digital health, the digitization process needs to be faster to keep up with the rest of Europe, says Peter Vullinghs, CEO of Philips Market DACH.

Rick Beberman, CEO of Sira Medical, provides a demonstration of his company's VR/AR surgery planning tool, which he claims can save up to 20% of operating room time and provide additional revenue opportunities.

Sheba Medical Center's head of the innovation center for digital health Dr. Nathalie Bloch discusses creating the right infrastructure to implement technology solutions by partnering with startups and established companies.

Dr. Dan Lowenstein, executive vice chancellor and provost at UCSF, says focusing on the health of humans leaving the planet pushes our current capabilities.

In our first episode of "When It Works," intracranial hematoma patient Danielle Collins and George Washington University Hospital's Dr. Walter Jean share how surgical theater helped Collins comprehend her condition.