Complementary and alternative medicine providers, such as practitioners of acupuncture and oriental medicine, chiropractors, direct-entry midwives and naturopathic physicians, are "generally unrecognized" by, but can fill a greater role in, the national healthcare landscape, according to a whitepaper generated by…

Hospitals, health systems and even insurers have been integrating with physician practices, seeking success under healthcare reform, and an article in the National Law Review breaks down four hospital-physician integration strategies that are evolving throughout the country.

Health insurer Highmark in Pittsburgh has acquired Pittsburgh-based Triangle Urological Group as part of its integrated healthcare delivery network, according to a Pittsburgh Business Times report.

A free guide on infection prevention in emergency medical services is available from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.

A free pocket card with patient handoff tips that was developed by University of Chicago Medical Center researchers is available from the Picker Institute.

While mortality rates for certain conditions at non-critical access hospitals decreased from 2002 to 2010, the rates at critical access hospitals increased, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Consumer education may help reduce the number of emergency ambulance calls for problems that could be safely managed in another setting, according to a study in Emergency Medicine Journal.

The inpatient hospital death rate for septicemia rose by 17 percent from 2000 to 2010, according to a data brief by the National Center for Health Statistics.

Using wireless anesthesia communication systems could improve the productivity of the supervising anesthesiologists outside of the operating room, according to a study in Anesthesia-Analgesia.

Saint Peter's University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J., has opened the Dorothy B. Hersh Pediatric Emergency Department, according to a report by The Star-Ledger.