Quality and Safety
TriHealth, winner of the HIMSS Davies Award, got all of its nursing and home care facilities documenting quality and utilization directly into its Epic EHR to determine the best outcomes and give patients solutions to make care decisions.
Medicare spends approximately $35 billion annually on care for beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease.
Avanti iHealth Partner Dr. Mark Roche says 20 years ago there were multiple competing standards and various maturity levels with healthcare interoperability.
This year's hospitals had better risk-adjusted outcomes, better patient satisfaction and a lower average cost per patient.
Program Executive Officer Stacy Cummings discusses how the DoD is taking a layered approach to cybersecurity, deploying a new network built with cybersecurity in mind, using a risk management framework and undergoing regular white hat assessments.
IronNet Cybersecurity CTO Michael Ehrlich says the top cyber concerns today are efforts to change our way of life, such as China with IP theft, Russia spreading discontent, and Iran and North Korea having weapons capabilities.
One medical center found savings of $67,241 over three years by foregoing routine chest X-rays, electrocardiograms and other preoperative procedures.
MITRE Senior Principal Cybersecurity Engineer Margie Zuk details the pre- and post-market cyber guidelines the FDA has posted for medical devices to eliminate confusion around security.
The industry has learned a lot during the last decade, done the best it could in many ways, but now we're starting "a new wave of change" in healthcare, says Subha Airan-Javia, associate professor at Penn Medicine.
Better SNF-to-home transitions are needed, both for the physical health of the patient and the fiscal health of the organization.