The steady rise in C-sections from 21 percent of births in 1996 to 32 percent today is a major quality and cost problem.
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In the wake of mass shootings across the country, the U.S. health sector must work to prevent shootings as they would for any other contagious problem, argues Gary Slutkin, MD, founder and CEO of Cure Violence and professor of epidemiology and global…
Alcohol use disorders are strongly related to risk of developing dementia, according to a study published in The Lancet Public Health.
CMS recently launched the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced program, a new voluntary payment model that will go into effect on October 1, 2018.
In 2015, unintentional suffocation caused 87 percent of deaths due to unintentional injury among children younger than one year old in the U.S., according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.
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Atlanta police officers are investigating the disappearance of Dr. Timothy Cunningham, team lead for the CDC's division of population health, who was last seen leaving work Feb. 12, according to a report from FOX 5.
Becker's Hospital Review caught up with Martie Moore, RN, MAOM, CPHQ, CNO for Medline, to discuss this year's flu outbreak and strategies hospitals are deploying to protect employees, patients and communities.
Minneapolis-based healthcare technology company Hitch Health partnered with ridesharing company Lyft to provide nonemergency medical transportation for patients who frequently miss medical appointments.
Health systems are increasingly turning to big data to drive innovation in their facilities. While innovation can take many forms, one Midwestern health system chose to focus on what it calls "radical access to care," successfully integrating social determinants of…
Two hospitals recently acquired by Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare from Chicago-based Presence are back in network with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois as of Feb. 16, The News-Gazette reports.