Quality and Safety

Medtronic device
By Jessica Hagen 03:50 pm October 04, 2024
A potentially shortened battery life in the MiniMed 600 or 700 series insulin pumps may result in the pump stopping insulin delivery significantly sooner than expected.  
Dr Shankar Sridharan of Great Ormond Street Hospital speaking
By Hannah Nwaozuzu 05:07 am October 03, 2024
Great Ormond Street Hospital's Dr Shankar Sridharan shares his take on AI application in healthcare and user responsibilities.
Hospital leaders in a panel discussion
By Hannah Nwaozuzu 05:07 am October 03, 2024
APAC hospital IT heads evaluated their respective experiences, barriers, and outlook on AI deployment.
Anand Rao of Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College on responsible AI
By Bill Siwicki 11:16 am October 02, 2024
A Carnegie Mellon University professor who specializes in responsible AI and generative AI discusses their importance in healthcare and combining the two – which can be tricky.
VA building signage
By Andrea Fox 11:11 am September 25, 2024
So says a new OIG audit, which found the VA and Oracle Health have been misaligned in their responses to outages throughout Electronic Health Record Modernization. While the agency has made procedural improvements, it needs to go further, auditors say.
Marilee Benson of Zen Healthcare IT on interoperability
By Bill Siwicki 12:09 pm September 24, 2024
A national interoperability leader advocates for simpler and more secure data exchange use cases, and says making patient access a routine part of healthcare information exchange will lead to positive health impacts.
Texas State Capitol
By Andrea Fox 01:45 am September 20, 2024
The investigation, billed as the first of its kind, had alleged that Dallas-based Piece Technologies made "deceptive claims" about the accuracy of its artificial intelligence products, which are deployed at several hospitals in the Lone Star State.
Veteran receives care and gets benefits information
By Mike Miliard 08:15 am September 19, 2024
Both electronic health record vendors have made open API code available to their health system clients that enables them to coordinate with the VA when treating veterans who have sought care at community providers.
Karl Ulfers, cofounder and CEO at DUOS
By Andrea Fox 10:58 am September 16, 2024
Healthcare providers can take advantage of seniors' growing trust in digital health tools, empowering older adults to make sense of a complex healthcare landscape, says the CEO of one care navigation platform for Medicare beneficiaries.