The Joint Commission has announced the addition of a new section to its website dedicated to "High Reliability - Consistent Excellence."
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Carestream Health plans to raise the price for medical and other X-ray film stock by up to 50 percent worldwide, due to price increases for the commodities it uses to make the film, according to a release by Carestream Health.
A critical incident team at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Portland, Ore., will be interviewing a private practice physician and hospital employees that were involved in a wrong-site surgery performed on a four-year-old boy, according to a local ABC news…
An analysis of medical literature showed a lack of screening tools in the management of opioid therapy for chronic non-cancer pain, according to research published in the journal Pain Physician.
Boston Scientific has reported a 14 percent increase of worldwide neuromodulation sales as part of its first quarter FY 2011 financial results, according to a company news release. Overall, the company achieved sales of $1.925 billion, representing a 2 percent…
The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association has published three ASC briefs for use by ASC advocates, policymakers, the media and others, according to an ASCA release.
Amerinet, a national healthcare group purchasing organization, has announced the availability of a new Amerinet Quality Solutions toolkit, podcast episode and webcast highlighting healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
Here are 10 statistics on ASC management and development companies, based on data from HealthCare Appraisers' 2010 ASC Valuation Survey. Seventeen companies representing over 500 U.S. surgery centers responded to the survey.
CPT copyright 2010 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. The following article is written by Stephanie Ellis, RN, CPC, president of Ellis Medical Consulting. Posterior lumbar interbody fusion…
On-site inservice presentations are an convenient way for staff in an ambulatory surgery center to keep up -to-date with clinical issues, says Francine Ramirez, RN, administrator of the Minimally Invasive Spine Institute, a two-OR ASC in Lafayette, Colo.