The Bureau of Labor Statistics states that more than 50,000 health IT-related jobs have been created since the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act was enacted in 2009, according to a fact sheet released by CMS and…
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More than 85 percent of hospitals are currently participating in the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records Incentive Programs, and 75 percent of them have received incentive payments for meaningful use of EHRs as of March 2013, according to a…
One of the greatest drivers of patient satisfaction improvement at Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health Care is innovation at the unit level. The health system empowers each unit to develop strategies to improve satisfaction at its unit; these…
Editors note: On April 19, Becker's Hospital Review received the following statement from Emergency Medicine Physicians in regards to an article regarding St. Rose Dominican Hospitals' decision to end its contact with EMP. The full-length statement reads as follows:
Knox Community Hospital in Mount Vernon, Ohio, has completed a $21 million expansion and renovation project.
Physicians are less likely to build an emotional rapport with overweight and obese patients, according to a study in Obesity.
Men may be at a higher risk for bloodstream and surgical site infections than women, according to a study in Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Osceola (Wis.) Medical Center CEO Jeff Meyer has announced his retirement, according to a report in The Sun.
Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., has announced it is joining the New York Genome Center as an associate member.
Richland Hospital in Richland Center, Wis. is an acute-care, critical access hospital.