Emergency departments are often viewed as stressful, chaotic environments where for clinicians, there never seems to be enough time, and for patients, time seems to drag on. Many hospitals are attempting to change this perception by streamlining patient flow. Swedish…
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More than 100 hospitals have signed up to participate in the Wisconsin Hospital Association's "Partners for Patients" project intended to help hospitals prevent avoidable hospital-acquired conditions and reduce unnecessary hospital readmissions.
Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center in Ogdensburg, N.Y., has adopted barcode technology to help reduce medication errors, according to a Watertown Daily Times report.
TeamHealth Holdings has announced its fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2011 results, according to a TeamHealth news release.
Somnia Anesthesia has announced Donald Helfer II, MD, has been named chief of anesthesiology at San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, N.M., according to a news release from Somnia.
Emergency departments at some of Utah's major hospitals might be accountable for $22 million in Medicaid funds for allegedly charging emergency rates for non-emergency care, according to a Salt Lake Tribune report.
Minneapolis-based Allina Hospitals and Clinics is dropping part of its name to become Allina Health, according to a Star Tribune report.
More than 93 percent of healthcare providers believe Medicare is fair with claims reimbursements all or most of the time, according to a survey health information exchange firm IVANS.
Effective yesterday, the Internal Revenue Service has published a temporary rule (pdf) on the tax-exempt status of organizations looking to apply and participate in CMS' Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan program.
Primary care physicians have historically been compensated less than specialists in overall salary and benefits, and the same trend holds true when it comes to average compensation to collections ratios, according to the Medical Group Management Association's Physician Compensation and…