Quality and Safety

Machine learning advances go above and beyond what has presently been achieved in medicine, the findings showed.

A big challenge for health plans is addressing member expectations based on their experiences in other industries.

Starship Children's Health is accomplishing patient matching to a high degree of confidence, claims Dr. Greg Williams, clinical director at the New Zealand hospital.

Just 31 percent of clinical leaders have a designated nursing leader whose primary responsibility is innovation.

Physicians need to work at seeking feedback from patients and meaningfully incorporating patient preferences into treatment plans.

The cost increases from other aspects of patient care cancel out the induction-related costs, contradicting long-held assumptions.

There's an opportunity for investors to address the longstanding epidemic while also netting good returns on their investments.

Previous risk models hadn't considered functional impairments, as they aren't generally available in registries and trials.

Biometrics can be used to foster interoperability, but questions about privacy and security need to be answered first, says Pew's HIT project director Ben Moscovitch.

Elena Bonfiglioli, Microsoft's Managing Director of Health and Life Sciences for Europe, Middle East and Africa, discusses a key to successful healthcare transformation: clinician tools that merge compliance with convenience.