Quality and Safety

<p>Florence Hudson, executive director of Columbia University's Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, previews her HIMSS23 look at the new IoT specification meant to help medical devices communicate safely and securely.</p>

Staffing issues and an ongoing nursing shortage continue to cause challenges for the nation's nursing workforce.

<p>Tom O’Neil, managing director of Berkeley Research Group, says boards need to ask the right questions to get AI right and consider factors like efficacy and transparency.</p> <p> </p>

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The House Oversight Committee said PBMs are distorting the pharmaceutical market and limiting high-quality care.

<p>Much can be learned from donating UpToDate to middle- and low-income countries, including how access to evidence-based clinical guidance can reduce barriers anywhere, says Wolters Kluwer Health CMO Dr. Peter Bonis.</p>

Apparent differences in potentially avoidable hospitalizations among MA plans may be explained by shifting inpatient care to other settings.

According to Optum, there's a high unmet need for treatments for Alzheimer's disease, as current treatments have lacked efficacy.

CMS says it must examine whether a medication is reasonable and necessary while the FDA assesses whether medications are safe and effective. 

MA plans have adopted more restrictive criteria commonly used by commercial health insurance carriers, found consulting firm Crowe.