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,…

  Patient Engagement Systems launched its Care Manager Web Portal.

Management of low-risk prostate cancer, which is unlikely to cause symptoms or affect survival if left untreated, differs greatly among physicians, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Best practices and unique approaches to reducing the occurrence of the nine most common medical errors

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, is holding a hearing July 17 on the need to improve patient safety.

Health insurer Independence Blue Cross has announced 90 percent of the hospitals that participated in its accountable care organization in the Philadelphia region lowered hospital readmission rates, with an average reduction of 16 percent in the first year.

According to a study in BMJ Quality & Safety, e-prescriptions do not necessarily result in fewer prescription errors than when using paper prescriptions.

Epion Health announced a partnership with athenahealth as part of athenahealth's More Disruption Please program.