Physicians have responded positively to news that CMS may delay the implementation date of ICD-10, according to a Health Leaders Media report.
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State officials have decided that one of three insurance plans currently sold in Vermont will serve as the model for the benefits plan offered to small employers and individuals in 2014, according to a Burlington Free Press report.
Two eye surgery centers in Albany, Ga., have merged and added four new physicians to the team, according to a My Southwest GA report.
The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority provides a free, downloadable brochure for patients on how to help prevent wrong-site surgery.
Dorian "Frank" Winconek, former CEO of a Muncie, Ind., surgery center, has been sentenced to two years in prison for stealing more than $80,000 from the center, according to a Canadian Business report.
Debra Stinchcomb, RN, BSN, CASC, consultant, and Regina Boore, RN, BSN, MS, CASC, president of Progressive Surgical Solutions, have a busy year ahead of them. They run a consulting company for surgery centers that provides the "gamut of services," from…
Information & Quality Healthcare, a not-for-profit corporation serving as the federally designated quality improvement organization for Mississippi, provides a free, downloadable poster developed by CDC and HHS that reminds healthcare workers to practice hand hygiene after removing gloves.
RF Surgical Systems, a developer of solutions for the detection and prevention of retained surgical sponges, has announced Duke University Medical Center in North Caorlina has implemented the company's RF Assure Detection System for use in its operating rooms, according…
A CLABSI bundle, which includes hand hygiene, site preparation, selecting the best site for inserting the line and removing the line as soon as the patient no longer needs it, helped Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minn., dramatically reduce CLABSI…
Almost half of all medical students (41 percent) and residents (53 percent) reported their attending physicians sometimes or often explicitly taught them to take medical liability into account when making clinical decisions, according to a study published in Academic Medicine.