The Joint Commission announced it is seeking comments on proposed changes to its Advanced Inpatient Diabetes Care certification program.

Since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, healthcare provider organizations have explored sharing in cost savings with other providers and/or payors and taking on risk through accountable care organizations and other value-based care models. While the…

A Nevada bill would no longer require nurse practitioners to work under physician supervision, according to a Las Vegas Sun report.

Hospitals, payors or physician groups — which entity has led the way with accountable care organizations since the first quarter of 2010?

It should not be surprising that the realignment of the industry, merging formerly competing entities, has not been a smooth course. Participants in integration efforts — whether from physician practices or from hospital administrations, experience significant and unanticipated difficulty in…

Providing care in a coordinated model, such as an accountable care organization, requires a lot of data. “The success of the model depends upon data,” says Gary Palgon, the vice president of healthcare solutions at Liaison Healthcare. “The more data…

A hospital is only as good as the care it provides, and no hospital renders quality care to a patient without the leadership of a quality physician. However, the current and predicted 20 percent physician shortage in the next two…

A study, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, found that among Medicare patients undergoing bariatric surgery, there was no significant difference in rates of complications and reoperation before and after the CMS policy (started in 2006) of…

While the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists issued a policy in 2012 asking operating room staff members to only use smartphones for medical purposes, the practice of recreational phone use continues to be a problem, according to NPR.

Proctor Hospital in Peoria, Ill., will sell its primary care practices to Peoria-based OSF Healthcare Systems, according to a Peoria Journal Star report.