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.

A free toolkit on managing surgical smoke is available from the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses.

The risk of acquiring a surgical site infection may be linked to patients' genes, according to a study in Wound Repair and Regeneration.

The organism carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae did not leave CRE-positive patients until more than one year after hospital discharge, according to a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control and reported by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and…

Contacting patients after their emergency department visit can increase patient satisfaction, according to a study in Annals of Emergency Medicine.