Qualitest issued a voluntary recall for 101 lots of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets because some tablets could contain higher doses than marked and result in patient liver toxicity, according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
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The Measures Application Partnership is considering approximately 500 quality measures to recommend to HHS for inclusion in federal healthcare payment and reporting programs, according to an AHA News Now report.
Five heart surgery patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles were infected due to tears in the surgeon's gloves, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
To prevent an outbreak of multidrug-resistant organisms, hospitals should implement an antimicrobial stewardship program, which provides support for choosing and using antimicrobial agents appropriately, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The following hospital mergers and acquisitions took place within the past week, beginning with the most recent.
Charlotte, N.C.-based Carolinas HealthCare System is notifying 5,600 patients of Carolinas Medical Center-Randolph in Charlotte of a potential data breach from an unauthorized electronic intruder.
Cardiac surgeons and orthopedic surgeons continue to be among the most highly paid physicians, but hematologists and medical oncologists witnesses the largest one-year jump in compensation in 2011, according to the American Medical Group Association's 2012 medical group compensation and…
Excluding retirement payments and other deferred compensation, the top seven executives at Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health made more than $13.5 million in compensation, according to the health system's 2011 Form 990 (pdf).
Boston-based Steward Health Care System and Mercy Health System of Maine in Portland terminated a letter of intent under which Steward would have purchased Mercy from its parent company, Catholic Health East in Newtown Square, Pa., according to a Boston…
Mercy Health System of Maine in Portland and Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems in Brewer have entered into a non-binding letter of intent for Eastern Maine to acquire Mercy Health.