Quality and Safety

The proposed rule removes measures for health equity, vaccines for healthcare staff and the social drivers of health. 

Any regulatory response to nursing home "deficiencies" must be consistent with legislation governing nursing homes, ruling says.

The quality of payers' digital experiences is lagging behind those of finance and property and casualty insurance, finds J.D. Power.

The digital maturity models represent not just a technology checklist, but how that technology is applied toward care quality and access, says HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf.

Jong-Soo Choi, CTO at South Korea's Samsung Medical Center and 2025 HIMSS Changemaker Awardee, says his health system achieved the HIMSS maturity model goal by focusing on improving care quality and patient engagement, even while dealing with challenges such as the cloud and data.

Artificial intelligence is picking up where behavioral health via telehealth left off during the COVID-19 pandemic in mitigating staffing shortages by handling administrative tasks, medication management and even doing triage to assess the patient, says Dr. Colin Banas, DrFirst's chief medical officer.

The board would require that board-certified physicians make determinations about whether care is medically necessary.

The move is an attempt to improve access to non-pharmaceutical treatment options for adolescent youths.

The goal of the new fellowship is to educate pharmacists on preventing medication errors.

The organization brings a power to people's voices and development and introduces them to dialog they wouldn't otherwise be exposed to, says Changemaker Award recipient Nelita Iuppa, Cleveland Clinic's executive director of informatics.