DebMed has been awarded a group purchasing agreement for hand hygiene monitoring systems with Premier, effective Oct. 1.

Delegates representing the nation's osteopathic physicians and medical students have voted to support the American Osteopathic Association Board of Trustee's decision to pursue a single graduate medical education accreditation system.

A bill signed into law in Missouri Thursday allows medical school graduates to practice medicine before starting their residencies, according to a KCUR report.

Care transitions intervention, a patient-centered coaching intervention, results in reduction of average cost of care among Medicare patients, according to a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

  CMS has awarded contracts to 14 organizations as part of a restructuring of the Quality Improvement Organization Program.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the first locally acquired case of chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus, in the United States.

Over the last 10 years, the rates of elective major orthopedic surgical procedures in patients 80 years and older increased in the United States, whereas the in-hospital mortality rates decreased, according to a study published in The Journal of Bone…

The Leapfrog Group has released the Results of its 2013 Hospital Survey, an in-depth look at seven areas of hospital quality and safety: medication errors, maternity care, high-risk surgeries, intensive care unit physician staffing, serious adverse events, safety practices and…

Surgical site infections are the second most common healthcare-associated infection, but 40 percent to 60 percent of SSIs are preventable, according to an article in the AORN Journal.

Preventable medical errors in hospitals are the third leading cause of death in the United States, a reality that will continue unless Congress intervenes, medical experts told legislators Thursday in a Senate hearing.