Quality and Safety
The analysis found that VA hospitals were likely to provide the best care in a local healthcare market and rarely provided the worst care in local markets.
AI is on the verge of being de-risked, so the market is poised to flourish as caregivers look to ramp up their patient care efforts.
The nursing shortage has negatively affected workloads for 88 percent of nurses in 2018, up significantly from 62 percent in 2016.
About a quarter of respondents thought mergers and acquisitions were threats to their health, and many place more trust in smaller practices.
For patients referred for an in-person specialty care visit, the median wait time decreased from 50 days before eConsult to 28 days with similar results for high-urgency patients.
Thirty-day hospital readmission risk has become an important measure of the quality of hospital care, and is closely tied to reimbursement.
At issue were infection control violations, which the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services described as "significant."
The readmission rates of top performing facilities were similar to, and in some cases greater than, the rates posted by unranked hospitals.
Cleveland Clinic came in first, and has been in the top 10 in the ranking for the past three years.
Case study: Grady Health used an AI machine to generate which patients were most at risk of coming back to them within 30 days, and then dispatched EMS staff to visit them.