Quality and Safety

Clinician burnout isn’t a new problem, but it appears to be getting worse due to factors that are inherent in today’s healthcare system.

Among the gaps for both types of facilities are a lack of best practices for patient care and inadequate monitoring of board certifications.

Cris Ross, CIO at the Mayo Clinic, says his organization's new 10-year partnership with Google Cloud aims to look for the next breakthroughs that diagnose and treat complex and serious illness or conditions more effectively.

HIMSS Media editorial team members discuss the top takeways from the Connected Health Conference in Boston, including the changing role of healthcare payers, the challenges of behavior change, worrying digital health adoption stats and more.

Humana will also tap Microsoft for healthcare-tuned natural language understanding and speech recognition to improve workflows.

Teaching hospitals posted superior outcomes, including higher 30-day mortality rates, for patients who underwent general or vascular surgery.

Walter Pistor, director of digital health transformation at WebShield, says conflicting regulations and ingrained processes can hamper data sharing - but his company can help build networks for secure sharing of sensitive data.

HealthBeacon CEO Jim Joyce explains why his company decided to focus on one important medication adherence use case: self-administered injectables.

Roxie Mooney, CEO and commercial strategist at Legacy DNA, describes the concept of patient co-creation and how involving patients early in the design and development process can make for a better product.

Dr. Mohd Hanif Abdul Gaus, director of health technology at LogixLab, describes how his company's AI-powered diagnostic tool is helping innovate approaches to medical imaging.