The Society of Hospital Medicine has announced its support of the Establishing Beneficiary Equity in the Hospital Readmission Program Act.

A blog post I wrote last week raised the question of whether closing hospitals and firing low-performing physicians could help healthcare in the long-run. The story was based on comments from thought leaders, including athenahealth CEO Jonathon Bush, Cleveland Clinic…

Six strategies to build strong physician-administrator partnerships

Thirteen hospitals across the state of Maryland have committed to buying and serving local foods for the annual Buy Local Week, a project of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Development Commission, which will be July 19 through July 27.

Some nurse practitioners in Kentucky are now able to prescribe routine medications without a physician's involvement, according to a Kaiser Health News report.

  The National Patient Safety Foundation offers a free checklist that encourages patients to take an active role in their healthcare.

Camp Hill, Pa.-based Holy Spirit Health System recently started a program wherein emergency medical professionals make house calls for certain patients to reduce hospital readmissions, according to a report by The Sentinel.

Hospitals and health systems are increasingly employing physicians, which makes it vital for healthcare organizations to understand valuations of physician employment contracts.

Physician burnout has become a very real and common phenomenon impacting nearly half of all physicians in practice and 75 percent of residents-in-training, according to an article by Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, Sanders Clinician Scholar and associate professor of psychiatry and…

Later this year and in early 2015, CMS plans to add a star rating system to the Hospital Compare, Dialysis Facility Compare and Home Health Compare websites on Medicare.gov, according to a CMS blog post, written by Patrick Conway, MD,…