Many North Carolina certified registered nurse anesthetists attended a General Assembly hearing Thursday to protest a bill that would require formal physician supervision of their practice, according to the Charlotte Observer.

About 70 percent of the nation's physicians are satisfied with practicing medicine, according to the Deloitte 2013 Survey of U.S. Physicians.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute have released a report ranking counties within each state by health.

An HHS official said the agency's pilot programs for new healthcare delivery and payment models will take up to one year to produce results, according to a Reuters report.

Oak Brook, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care has announced it has trained 1,000 adults as part of its Stewards of Children program, an outreach initiative of the system's Childhood Trauma Treatment Program.

Anesthesiology may put some people to sleep, but the specialty is about to get a wakeup call.

Twenty-seven percent of healthcare professionals reported that they had made an error at work due to fatigue, according to a survey commissioned by Kronos Inc. and conducted by HealthLeaders Media.

Clinical integration — standardizing clinical practices and processes across providers — can help hospitals and health systems improve quality of care while lowering costs. Rick Lopez, MD, CMO of Newton, Mass.-based Atrius Health, believes clinical integration is a critical strategy…

A free toolkit to guide hospitals' implementation of Re-Engineered Discharge, a readmission reduction initiative, is available from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Many neonatal intensive care units are understaffed, which is associated with higher infection rates among infants with very low birth weights, according to a study in JAMA Pediatrics.