Quality and Safety
Hospitals are not reimbursed for admitting uninsured patients and they receive lower payments for Medicaid.
There's room for improvement in transparency and patient identification, but there's also the potential for blockchain to be corrupted, says Wende Hutton, general partner at venture capital firm Canaan Partners.
Avoiding readmissions is one the top goals for providers who seek to avoid financial penalties linked to high rates.
Patients and healthcare workers can spread infections from one hospital to another, even if some are more vigilant in controlling infections.
With the data liquidity issue being addressed, data portability will be the next interoperability hurdle, says Dr. Tom Giannulli, CMIO of AMA's Integrated Health Model Initiative.
Since the introduction of the star ratings in 2016, they've been met with skepticism due to their methodology.
The findings come as an increasing number of health systems are investing in system-wide EHRs, despite lingering issues with interoperability.
Ver2 Digital Medicine CEO Brian de Francesca talks about how telemedicine has evolved and efforts to provide medical care to refugees in camps using a cloud-based EHR built on blockchain.
Rohit Ghosh, founding member of Qure.ai, discusses deploying AI and machine learning to radiology and examples of success stories.
In low-scoring hospitals, 3 percent of heart attack patients returned to the hospital for a new heart attack within 30 days.