Worchester, Mass.-based Cardiology Consultants of Central Massachusetts has join UMass Memorial Medical Group, the faculty practice group for UMass Memorial Health Care and the University of Massachusetts Medical School, according to a report by the Worchester Business Journal.

Wheaton Franciscan All Saints in Racine, Wis., is in the process of unveiling a new leadership model that will give physicians more input on how the organization is run, according to a report by The Journal Times.

Research conducted by the Association of Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology has found that hospitals that use advanced technology for healthcare-associated infection surveillance are more likely to put in place best-practices for infection prevention than those hospitals that do…

An analysis of outpatient hospital quality data recently released by Department of Health and Human Services shows that physicians at Illinois hospitals ordered "double" CT scans — one with injected dye and one without — at nearly double the rate…

In the past few years, the prevalence of hospital-owned physician practices has greatly increased as hospitals seek to expand referral bases and service lines while physicians seek a reprieve from growing federal and state reporting requirements and other regulations. One…

With 30,000 hospitalists in the United States, hospital medicine is the fastest growing medical specialty and it is expected to play an important role in healthcare reform, according to a report by the New York Times.

Robert J. Baudino, JD, is president of Baudino Law Group in Des Moines, Iowa, which primarily represents healthcare clients. Here, Mr. Baudino discusses how hospitals can prepare for accountable care organizations, noting that clinical integration is a good first step.

Six interventional radiologists with Radiological Association of Sacramento (Calif.) Medical Group have filed suit against Sutter Roseville (Calif) Medical Center and Sutter Medical Center Sacramento after being denied privileges following Sutter's hiring of its own radiologists, according to a report…

The Department of Health and Human Services will now include quality information about outpatient and emergency department care at hospitals across the United States on its HealthCare.gov website as well as CMS' Hospital Compare website, according to an HHS news…

The heart attack mortality rate for U.S. hospitals dropped from 16.6 percent for the period of July 2005 through June 2008 to 16.2 percent for the period of July 2006 through June 2009, according to CMS data analyzed in a…