The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council issued a new report that showed healthcare-associated infection and mortalities rates decreased from 2009 to 2010. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council report.
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A suspected norovirus outbreak has led Kaseman Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque, N.M., to quarantine its skilled nursing rehabilitation unit, according to a KRQE report. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on Kaseman Presbyterian Hospital.
The New York State Department of Health has ordered Peninsula Hospital in Far Rockaway to suspend its clinical laboratory, stop admitting new patients, cancel all surgeries and procedures and develop a plan to transfer inpatients to other facilities after an…
The House bill to repeal the medical device tax has 228 co-sponsors but has failed to get the support of key members of the Medical Technology Caucus, which was formed to support the medical technology industry, according to a MassDevice…
The 5-Diamond Patient Safety Program offers a free, downloadable poster detailing five steps patient can take to ensure safer healthcare.
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland announced researchers have developed a new way to measure pain based on a patient's movement.
Millennium Laboratories announced it will sponsor two education initiatives aimed at teaching physicians safer opioid prescribing practices and addressing medication-taking behaviors of pain patients at the American Academy of Pain Medicine annual meeting.
invendo medical announced the FDA approved its SC20 single-use colonoscope as part of the company's C20 colonoscopy system.
A researcher from the Mayo Clinic in Arizona found computed tomographic colonography, also called virtual colonoscopy, was as effective in patients over 65 as it was in patients under 65, according to findings published in Radiology.
The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance has issued a notice of proposed substantial changes to the Personal Injury Protection regulations.