Hospital mortality rates are not often affected by how full the facility is — but only up to a point.

PDI has introduced a new 70 percent ethyl alcohol formulation of its Sani-Hands sanitizing wipe, the only 70 percent alcohol-based hand sanitizing wipe approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States' market.

Nearly a quarter of physicians (23 percent) would not choose to become a physician again if they could turn back time, according to a survey by The Medicus Firm.

In the anesthesiology field, the adoption rate of electronic health records is very low — possibly in the single digits. But since these systems were first introduced, advances in technology have made it much easier to achieve integration between systems.

Leaders from CMS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are hosting a Twitter chat about healthcare-associated infections and antibiotic resistance Wednesday at 2 p.m. EDT.

A bipartisan group of House members have sent a letter urging CMS to work with Congress to help ensure the readmission reduction program does not harm healthcare organizations that provide services to dual-eligible beneficiaries and low-income seniors, according to a…

Ecolab Healthcare and Hill-Rom partnered to provide integrative hand hygiene compliance solutions for the healthcare market.

A little more than 38 percent of Latino adults in California reported having no health insurance for all or part of 2011-2012, according to 2011-2012 Race/Ethnicity Health Profiles, released by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Ten healthcare organizations in Wichita, Kan., have joined a local patient safety initiative, according to a report by The Wichita Eagle.

Baltimore-based University of Maryland Department of Medicine's safe kidney care program has launched a research project to measure a range of adverse safety events in patients with kidney disease.