Anesthesia

CMS has certified the Anesthesia Quality Institute's National Anesthesia Clinical Outcomes Registry as a Qualified Clinical Data Registry.

Melville, N.Y.-based North American Partners in Anesthesia recently achieved top placement in the hospital-level HCAHPS' — the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems — pain management category for New Jersey.

Facing an increasingly uncertain healthcare climate, anesthesia groups seem to think the best tactic for survival is banding together. For these groups, bigger may just be better.

The American Society of Anesthesiologists invites all health care organizations to apply to participate in its Perioperative Surgical Home learning collaborative.

Serious complications due to anesthesia during childbirth are very rare, occurring in one out of every 3,000 deliveries, according to study published in Anesthesiology.

Audio-Digest Foundation announced the release of "Anesthesiology Volume 56, Issue 06: Optimizing the Bowel/Difficult Airway."

Aetna, Humana and UnitedHealthcare have announced plans to establish an online database of paid claims that will provide information regarding the price and quality of healthcare services, according to an Anesthesia Business Consultants blog post.

Teleflex presented its comprehensive anesthesia portfolio, including regional anesthesia, at the Networking World Anesthesia Convention Congress in Vienna, Austria.

Gildasio S. De Oliveira Jr., MD, has been named editor-in-chief of Ambulatory Anesthesia, an international, peer-reviewed open access journal.

Shareable Ink, an enterprise cloud computing company, announced the formation of an Anesthesia Leadership Board.