Michael Allen serves as CFO of Winona (Minn.) Health, a non-profit health system with a 99-bed hospital and more than 1,100 employees, but his financial expertise has taken a new national role.
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The Joint Commission has revised an element of performance under the waved testing standard. Read the full report in Becker’s ASC Review on The Joint Commission.
Researchers have concluded photo identification in EHRs could help mitigate the risk of providing unintended care to the wrong patient, according to a study published in Pediatrics. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on adverse events.
For many within healthcare, ICD-10 is treated as a sleeping giant: Tread gently around it, so as not to wake it. HHS and CMS recently proposed a rule to delay the compliance date of ICD-10 from Oct. 1, 2013, to…
The Facility Guidelines Institute is accepting comments on the draft of its 2014 edition of Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities — the reference standard for new construction and renovation of healthcare facilities.
Eighty-five percent of healthcare executives assert their expedited health information exchange adoption is inspired by pressure to prepare for ACOs and changing reimbursement models, according to the "2012 Black Book State of the Enterprise HIE Industry" report.
More than $5 billion has been paid to eligible professionals and hospitals under the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record incentive payment programs since the Medicare program began in May 2011 and the Medicaid program began in January 2011, according…
Oak Brook, Ill.-based Witt/Kieffer has formed a new practice, Solutions for Exceptional Leadership, a portfolio of best practices for healthcare leaders.
Adventist La Grange (Ill.) Memorial Hospital has appointed Lary Davis as CEO, effective June 30.
Brentwood, Tenn.-based LifePoint Hospitals has signed an asset purchase agreement with Woods Memorial Hospital in Etowah, Tenn., to acquire the hospital.