Quality and Safety
In a report released Thursday, the FDA outlined a four-step plan to better monitor and report on the effectiveness and safety of medical devices.
According to a new John Hopkins Children's Center study published earlier this week, hospitals can prevent one in five central-line infections by following a list of precautions and measures, encouraging families to speak up when they observe noncompliance and doing an analysis of the causes behind every infection that does occur.
New Institute of Medicine report identifies four tools that will improve care and lower costs in the healthcare system: computing power, connectivity, improved organizational capabilities and teamwork.
Ascension Health Alliance in St. Louis signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Wednesday with Marion Health System to acquire the system's 36 affiliated hospitals in three regional divisions based out of Tulsa, Okla.
Nearly every healthcare organization and affiliated clinician group faces challenges when working to meet new models of care and payment delivery. One industry expert offers six pieces of advice to lower costs, improve care and maximize revenue in the ED.
Even as many states gear up for tougher insurance regulations under the federal health law, Maine lawmakers last year bucked the trend, loosening rules they blamed for some of the highest premiums in the nation.
The Marquette General Health System (MGHS) board of trustees and Duke LifePoint Healthcare announced Tuesday that they have finalized the transaction for Marquette General to be acquired by Duke LifePoint.
As care models spring up across the country to test whether patient-centered, accountable care can save money and improve health outcomes, a payer-provider collaboration in Portland, Maine is demonstrating that at least theirs holds promise.
According to the latest RACTrac survey by the American Hospital Association (AHA), Medicare recovery auditors (RAC)-related denials in the second quarter of 2012 soared upwards by 24 percent from the first quarter of 2012.
HealthPartners and Park Nicollet Health Care announced that their boards of directors have signed an agreement to combine the two non-profits to create a comprehensive integrated health system and associated health plan to serve the Twin Cities region and parts of western Wisconsin.