10 Biggest Hospital Stories of 2011 2011 has not been a quiet year for healthcare. During the last 12 months, a number of provisions within the healthcare reform law went into effect, and proposed rules and guidance for several innovative…
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The Medical Group Management Association and the American College of Medical Practice Executives have announced they will merge into a single association, effective Jan. 1, according to an MGMA news release.
The risk of reoperation for recurrence of groin hernias was significantly decreased in cases where the operating time exceeded 66 minutes, according to a study published in Archives of Surgery.
Nurses at Doctors Hospital of Sarasota (Fla.) have gathered today in protest of the hospital's plan to launch a cardiac stent program over concerns of inadequate staffing and training, according to a Herald-Tribune report.
INTEGRIS Baptist Regional Health Center in Miami, Okla., has broken ground on its $1.4 million cardiac catheterization lab, according to a Joplin Globe report.
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Although 55 million Social Security beneficiaries will receive a 3.6 percent raise in benefits — their first since 2009 — higher Medicare premiums could wipe out part of those increases, according to a Christian Science Monitor report.
The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction has already received more than 175,000 recommendations on how to find more than $1 trillion in savings, according to a Politico report.
An $11 million building that will include clinic space and offices is currently under construction on Oklahoma Heart Hospital South's campus in Oklahoma City, according to an Oklahoman report.
As hospitals and health systems look for ways to transform quality of care, patient safety and efficiency, they are increasingly turning to powerful real-time location systems and workflow automation software technology platforms to achieve those goals and realize an immediate…
Radisphere, which provides radiology services to community hospitals, has announced it will implement a wide-ranging quality initiative through 2012, according to a news release.