Quality and Safety
Aster DM Healthcare is striving to connect its hospitals via a single interoperable platform, MyAster.
Tyler LaPlaunt, assistant director at Upper Peninsula Health Care Solutions, explains how a lack of both government funding and interoperability lead to scarce healthcare IT solutions in tribal communities.
The increase holds true even after accounting for patients being sicker and requiring more complex and intensive care.
The clinical workforce must be cyber aware, and the cybersecurity team must become clinically aware, experts say.
Greg Miller, chief growth officer at health IT vendor Lumeon, says that manual methods for coordinating and verifying points in a patient's clinical journey cause provider burnout.
The value proposition is making sure everyone is using the same process for cyber risk quantification.
Half of large employers offering retiree health benefits offer coverage to at least some retirees through a contract with an MA plan.
Optum Labs is providing funding in 2022-'23, which will drive research in precision behavioral health, among other areas of focus.
The readmission reductions may be due mostly to changes in how patient visits are being classified, JAMA analysis shows.
Clinicians have faced new sources of stress since the pandemic, including fear of the virus and the inability to modulate workload, JAMA says.