Here are five core concepts for healthcare providers this year, as well as observations on key healthcare delivery trends during 2011.
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When the emergency department is overcrowded, emergency medicine residents see fewer patients and perform fewer procedures but do not perceive a lower educational value than when the ED is not overcrowded, according to a study in the Journal of Emergency…
Reps. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) have introduced legislation that would give the Food and Drug Administration authority to reject 510(k) applications of medical devices that are similar to ones…
Physicians and healthcare experts from HealthPartners, based in Minneapolis, have assessed their organization's efforts to adopt and achieve the Triple Aim and concluded five simple rules that can create value in healthcare, according to a CDC publication.
A group of researchers from several healthcare organizations, including the University of Michigan Health System and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, has recommended the addition of a "patient safety professional" to healthcare staff in order to boost patient safety efforts,…
The American Academy of Pediatrics has released a revised policy statement on the definition family-centered care, emphasizing the need for pediatricians to integrate families into children's healthcare.
The Minnesota Department of Health has issued a memo to healthcare facilities regarding proper reprocessing of endoscopes.
At the beginning of January, CMS said it would delay the Jan. 1, 2012, launch date of its Recovery Audit Prepayment Review demonstration, and today CMS announced that demonstration will now move forward on or after June 1, 2012.
The problem.When Mark Hulse, current vice president and CIO, joined H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa, Fla., around 2010, the medical center already had a working data warehouse. However, the data warehouse was not meeting the…