Quality and Safety

Mouneer Odeh of Cedars-Sinai on Chief AI Officers
By Bill Siwicki 10:33 am April 11, 2025
Chief Data and AI Officer Mouneer Odeh says work on artificial intelligence is like a snowball going downhill – over the next five to 10 years it will build and build until the scale of the impact meets what healthcare requires.
Robert Slepin of SE Health and Epic on digital transformation
By Bill Siwicki 12:39 pm March 21, 2025
Robert Slepin, chief digital officer at SE Health and an emeritus CIO adviser at Epic, describes the key aspects of digital transformation that provider organizations need to understand, the primary technologies involved and how to best organize such a comprehensive effort.
veteran draws on a whiteboard with a colleague
By Andrea Fox 10:55 am March 21, 2025
While the department says the contracts are "non-mission-critical or duplicative," several of those canceled in March were for veteran-owned businesses that were focused on the safety and integrity of the ongoing electronic health record rollout.
Patient gets assistance in nursing home
By Nathan Eddy 10:40 am March 17, 2025
A new tool researched at Regenstrief Institute aims to help get symptom assessment data integrated into EHRs and incorporated into clinical workflows.
Nurse checks her tablet
By Andrea Fox 10:45 am March 13, 2025
Innovaccer, Veradigm and other companies are integrating real-time healthcare data, analytics and artificial intelligence-enhanced workflows into payer and provider systems to improve patient outcomes and care delivery.
Dr. Ronald Rodriguez of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio on AI
By Bill Siwicki 11:19 am March 12, 2025
Dr. Ronald Rodriguez, co-founder of the nation's first MD/MS in artificial intelligence dual degree, offers warnings and solutions for generative AI privacy errors, skyrocketing AI usage costs, and AI correcting mistakes resulting in different errors.
 Michael Allen, senior clinical informatics nurse at Indiana University Health
By Andrea Fox 10:33 am March 12, 2025
Nurses with less than two years of experience increase their confidence in performing during electronic health record outages after escape room-style training, Michael Allen of Indiana University Health said at HIMSS25.
Aaron Miri CDIO at Baptist Health on MDM technology
By Bill Siwicki 10:58 am March 07, 2025
The health system sees about 50 cases per day with one of its referring health systems – more than 18,000 cases per year where care is improved and patients and their families have a better experience, the CDIO reports.
Stethoscope resting on tablet
By Mike Miliard 07:23 am March 07, 2025
The third in a three-part series, UNC System Director For Analytical Solutions Greg Kuhnen teams up with UNC Manager of Data Science Engineering Ram Rimal to discuss ensuring responsible adoption of AI.
VA signage on building
By Andrea Fox 06:57 am March 07, 2025
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, along with other agencies using federal EHRs, experienced a system outage just weeks after assuring lawmakers about the success of ongoing improvement efforts.