The National Quality Forum and the Department of Health and Human Services have partnered together to provide a webinar series dedicated to patient safety, according to an NQF news release. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on the…
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Cathy Rudisill, RN, senior vice president of operations at Ambulatory Surgical Centers of America, outlines physician recruitment and ASC staffing changes to immediately improve profits. She spoke in a 90-minute workshop with two other ASCOA executives at the 9th Annual…
Ann Geier, senior vice president of operations at Ambulatory Surgical Centers of America, provides several supply changes ambulatory surgery center can make to immediately improve profits. She spoke in a 90-minute workshop with two other ASCOA executives at the 9th…
Surgical supply distributors want to do more than just "sell you stuff," said Gerard Buckland, director of national accounts of the surgery center division for McKesson, one of the largest distributors of medical and surgical supplies in the country. "We…
A Utah study found that prescription drug-related harm, including death, primarily involved opioids, according to a report in the journal Pain Medicine.
A registered nurse in Kansas has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for helping to divert the opiods oxycodone and oxycontin, according to a report by the Topeka Capital-Journal.
Researchers have developed an add-on system for implantable devices, such as pacemakers, that would prevent unauthorized signals from instructing the implant to deliver lethal doses of medication or electricity, according to a report by Physorg.
A new study by researchers at the Department of Veterans Affairs finds gastric bypass does not extend the lives of older, severely obese patients, according to a report by Internal Medicine News.
A new market survey shows the rate of utilization of computed tomography scanners has grown around 6 percent annually since 2007, with an estimated 82 million CT scans performed in 2010, according to a report by DOTMed News.
In a study of colonoscopies involving poor bowel preps, 42 percent of polyps were discovered only in a repeat colonoscopy, according to a report in GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.