Chicago Public Schools will open the city's first high school focused on educating students for future careers in healthcare, according to a report by Crain's Chicago Business.

Errors by hospital coders affect accurate nonpayment by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for catheter-associated hospital acquired infections, according to a study by researchers at the University of Michigan.

Many areas of the country that had low healthcare spending have been showing a sharp increase in the number of procedures and tests following introduction of new ASCs, cancer treatment centers and diagnostic technology, according to a report by the…

Bucks County (Pa.) Specialty Hospital has beaten the health reform law's Dec. 31 deadline for opening new physician-owned hospitals because its owners bought and rebuilt a women's hospital that had closed, according to a report by the Philadelphia Inquirer.

As hospitals look for strategies to improve physician engagement and physicians look for efficient care environments, both groups are increasingly drawn to clinical co-management agreements in which hospitals run an ASC as a hospital outpatient department. David Thoene, founder and…

The American Medical Association and a separate coalition of 11 medical societies have thrown their support behind the Healthcare Truth and Transparency Act of 2010, introduced by Representatives John Sullivan (R-Okla.) and David Scott (D-Ga.).

In a sign of accelerating efforts by hospitals to align themselves with physicians, a California hospital association is floating the idea of forming a joint foundation to supply its hospital members with physicians, according to a report by the Wall…

Thanks to a Commonwealth Fund grant, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices will resurvey hospitals on their medication safety practices later this year, according to a report by AHA News Now.

The American Pain Society has announced the winners of its prestigious annual achievement awards for excellence in the field of pain management in six categories including awards for career achievement, pain scholarship, education and public service, advocacy on behalf of…

A majority of representatives in the U.S. House wants its leadership to introduce a bill extending extra federal funds to states for Medicaid and other healthcare assistance programs, according to a report by AHA News Now.