The Confused and Bewildered Hospital: Adverse Event Discovery, Pay-for-Performance, and Big Data Tools as Halfway Technologies.

The article focuses on entanglement of adverse event tracking, artificial intelligence (AI) tools and pay-for-performance metrics in hospitals. It mentions hospital Boards of Directors must take a forceful ethical stance on role of quality and patient safety as a central goal of hospital actions. It also mentions onslaught of expensive data analytics tools harmed and often undercompensated Medicare patient model needs to be developed and tested that uses Medicare tools to offer compensation.