Hospital executives participate in a balancing act everyday. They have to keep many different people and organizations satisfied, and it isn't always easy. Further, the transformation from fee-for-service to pay-for-performance models throw another to-do on an executive's agenda: How to…
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The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation has released an article outlining 10 things healthcare organizations can do right now to improve reprocessing.
Hospital prices increased 0.3 percent in April, according to the latest statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Producer Price Index.
Patients who take sedatives for anxiety and/or difficulty sleeping after having a heart attack are at risk of another ― including fatal attacks ― within one year, according to study at the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes…
According to an audit of electronic health record systems by Zynx Health in Los Angeles, a clinical decision support content provider, many U.S. hospital and health system EHRs barely earn a passing grade for implementing clinical best practices, especially when…
Poor planning and use of hospital beds could drive some surgical patients home too early, leading to increased hospital readmissions, according to researchers at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Here are 11 issues dealing with Medicare or Medicaid that occurred in the past week, starting with the most recent.
The following is reprinted with permission from strategicplanningMD.As simple a concept as balanced scorecards are, organizations still have difficulty implementing them effectively. Although the fundamental purpose of a balanced scorecard is to increase the organization's focus on execution and results…
The Daniel Hanley Center for Health Leadership in Portland, Maine, has launched what it considers to be the nation's first independent statewide physician executive leadership institute.
Oak Brook, Ill.-based Advocate Medical Group, the physician arm of Advocate Health Care, has acquired the Oak Lawn, Ill.-based Heart Institute for Children, according to a Crain’s Chicago Business report. The purchase will add thirteen pediatric cardiologists to Advocate’s medical…