You can’t manage what you don’t measure: that seems to be the mantra of every hospital executive, as electronic data systems increasingly help hospitals track data on quality measures, patient ...

Providence Health Care CEO Fiona Dalton says the new St. Paul’s Hospital may or may not get an overdose prevention site. I was surprised by that because last summer the Health Ministry was talking ...

Hospitals are increasingly focused on tracking financial data to determine where money is wasted and where costs can be cut. Here, Stephen Mooney, president of revenue cycle solutions at Conifer ...

A small FDA survey of nine hospitals found that the most popular use cases for RFID (radio frequency identification) technology are infusion pumps, portable monitors, wheelchairs, beds, and ...

Hospitals lose up to 20% of mobile assets like wheelchairs, hospital beds, and medical equipment to theft or misplacement—costing an average of $3,000 per item to the tune of millions lost annually.

CMS issued a memo encouraging hospitals to use the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Common Formats to meet adverse event tracking requirements. Hospitals are required to track adverse ...

Market to adopt AI, 5G, and blockchain for healthcare efficiency. The global healthcare asset tracking market is projected to grow from $7.8b in 2024 to $22.4b by 2033, representing a compound annual ...

Researchers find that tracking pixels—small pieces of embedded code that can transmit user data to third parties—significantly increase data breach risk on hospital websites. Hilal Atasoy and ...