In 2010, Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, Conn., implemented the World Health Organization's Surgical Safety Checklist to reduce infection rates in the operating room. While a checklist is a simple tool, successfully using the checklist was harder…
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The following hospital executive moves occurred within the past week, beginning with the most recent.
Emergency department wait times reported by CMS may not be entirely accurate, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
There is no doubt culture is important to physicians and hospital administrators alike. Determining cultural fit is an important part of the physician recruitment process for many organizations. Cultural fit is also important because if physicians do not feel as…
Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago has announced the opening of the MOR Hand, Wrist & Elbow Institute.
Saint Louis University Hospital has begun a $1.5 million emergency department expansion, according to a report by The St. Louis American.
Glens Falls (N.Y.) Hospital has been slammed with a class-action lawsuit after the names and medical records of 2,360 patients were accidentally released, according to a Times Union report.
Steven Waldren, senior healthcare IT strategist for the American Academy of Family Physicians and co-founder of New Health Networks, recently shared four recommendations for healthcare organizations that use cloud-based systems on how to deal with gaps in network reliability, according…
The market for electronic medical records exceeded $20 billion in 2012 and will see robust sales in 2013, according to a report called "EMR 2013: The Market for Electronic Medical Records," by Kalorama Information, a publisher of medical markets research.
Farzad Mostashari, U.S. national coordinator for health IT said the proposed user fee for electronic health record vendors would give the ONC's certification program an assured funding base, which would lead to less uncertainty for the industry, according a Government…