Support services, such as clean, infection-free rooms, sterile equipment available at a moment's notice and assigning a room quickly and with the proper attributes, are a key aspect for improving patient satisfaction scores and lowering morbidity rates, according to a…
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In November, UW Health in Madison and Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee announced they are looking to collaborate — but they did not explicitly mention the words "merger" or "acquisition."
St. Luke's Health System, a Houston-based subsidiary of Englewood, Colo.-based Catholic Health Initiatives, will adopt Craneware's pharmacy charge program.
Melville, N.Y.-based North American Partners in Anesthesia has announced its partnership with Memorial Hospital in York, Pa.
Addison, Texas-based United Surgical Partners International and Mundelein, Ill.-based Medline Industries have signed a five-year partnership for supply distribution estimated to be worth $275 million.
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During the past year, factors such as the aging population and increased demand for healthcare services have driven the rise of urgent care centers, according to a HealthCare Appraisers 2013 report.
Physicians appear to be restricting their contact with pharmaceutical representatives, according to recent data from Capgemini Consulting, the strategy and transformation brand of Paris-based Capgemini, and QuantiaMD, a social learning and collaboration platform for physicians.
Of the 100 accountable care organizations listed on Becker's Hospital Review's 2013 list of ACOs to Know, 25 are headquartered in the Midwest.
Personalized medicine — or the use of genomic information to inform medical diagnosis and treatment — is a concept that I've written about often for Becker's (see here and here), but a new article in Esquire of all places provides…
At the Radiological Society of North America's 99th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting Dec. 1 to Dec. 6 in Chicago, a main focus was Imaging 3.0.