Minnesota will be short nearly 850 primary care physicians by 2024, according to a study conducted by Towers Watson for the Minnesota Hospital Association.

  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to launch its Antibiotic Use and Resistance reporting module this week. The system will allow hospitals to track all dispensed antibiotics and look at patterns of antibiotic resistance.

DHG Healthcare, a company that provides advisory and accounting services to the healthcare community, has released a study on developing a clinically integrated network and how to ensure its success.

Among healthcare leaders, there has been a call to arms of sorts, which has swelled over the last five or so years, to rid medicine of, well, jerks. The more technical term we've been using to describe this phenomenon of…

In the past, acute care and mental health care have been siloed. It's only recently that healthcare systems have come to the conclusion the two have more in common than was previously thought. The mind and the body are not…

The University at Buffalo (N.Y.) School of Nursing has been awarded a two-year, $298,934 grant by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to create a pilot project for ensuring that patients get follow-up care at primary physician offices soon…

The following is a list of hospitals with 30-day heart failure readmission rates at or below 19 percent, some of the lowest rates in the nation. Data was taken from CMS' Hospital Compare.

San Jose, Calif.-based Vocera has released a new solution to increase patient safety and reduce clinician alarm fatigue.

A fourth patient, from among 14 infected with an unusual infection at the Greenville (S.C.) Health System, has died, according to a WYFF 4 report.

The American Hospital Association announced that the 2014 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize winner is VCU Medical Center in Richmond, Va.