U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) introduced legislation today that would provide the Food and Drug Administration with key tools to help address and prevent shortages of prescription drug medications, according to a news release from Sen.…
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed a new medical device innovation initiative, the Innovation Pathway, a priority review program for new, breakthrough medical devices, according to an FDA news release.
While more ambulatory surgery centers are moving away from communicating with patients through paper and gravitating toward electronic tools such as e-mail as a means of corresponding with patients prior to surgery or as a way to obtain patient satisfaction…
Wolters Kluwer Health has announced Southern Ohio Medical Center in Portsmouth has selected its ProVation MD software for cardiology procedure documentation and coding in the hospital's cardiac catheterization lab.
The following article was originally published in Preventing Infection in Ambulatory Care, the quarterly e-publication from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). To learn more about receiving this resource and joining APIC, visit www.apic.org/ambulatorynewsletter. To learn…
Yellowstone Surgery Center in Cheyenne, Wyo., has achieved accreditation by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC), according to a news release from Cheyenne Regional Medical Center.
Q: As a relatively small center, wouldn't it be easier for us to buy drugs and supplies like alcohol swabs from a local pharmacy? Sheldon Sones: The recent recall of alcohol swabs and lubricating jelly from Triad/McKesson reminds us…
Medical Web Technologies, a provider of web-based medical information solutions, has announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company a patent which covers the process of guiding a patient through the creation of a structured, online…
Kent Hospital, based in Warwick, R.I., has announced it has broken ground on a new ambulatory surgery center and medical office building which will be attached to the hospital.
Infection control and prevention is especially difficult for orthopedic surgeons because they are often implanting artificial devices into the patient. "If patients develop an infection, it could mean losing the implant and going back to surgery," says Linda Greene, RN,…