California has fined 13 hospitals for medical errors that caused or were likely to have caused serious injury or death to patients in 2008 and 2009, according to a release from the California Department of Public Health.

Citing federal statistics, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality says uninsured adults were more likely in 2007 to have problems accessing a physician specialist than people who had insurance coverage, according to a report by AHA News Now.

Anesthesiologists at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., have developed a simple, but highly effective patient surveillance system that has decreased the number of rescue calls and ICU transfers in postsurgical patients, according to a news release from the American…

Anesthesiologists at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., have developed a simple, but highly effective patient surveillance system that has decreased the number of rescue calls and ICU transfers in postsurgical patients, according to a news release from the American…

A poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that Americans who oppose the health reform bills in Congress would still support several specific provisions, according to a release by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The emergency department is one of the most critical departments within a hospital because a hospital's overall perception is largely dependent of the success or failure of its ED, says Quint Studer, founder of the Studer Group. As recent media…

One example of the Cleveland Clinic's increasing use of digital technology is the electronic reminders it sends to anesthesiologists to carry out a patient safety task, according to Marc Harrison, MD, chief medical operations officer at the clinic.

A new study by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests that limiting the depth of sedation during procedures could safely cut the risk of postoperative delirium, a state of confusion that can lead to long-term health problems and cause some elderly patients…

Anthem Blue Cross will finance a $6 million patient safety collaboration with California's three regional hospital associations, according to a release from Anthem.

A survey of more than 1,500 opinion leaders from the healthcare industry, academia and government found that an overwhelming majority of the leaders believe nurses should have more influence in health reform.