The National Quality Forum has announced the release of the Quality Data Set, a common technological framework for defining clinical data necessary to measure performance and accelerate improvement in patients' quality of care, which provides a standardized set of data…
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Florida Hospital Surgery Center is opening its new space in White Plains, N.Y.-based Seavest's new Surgical Medical Plaza on the Florida Hospital East Orlando campus, according to a report in the Orlando Business Journal.
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Chip Kahn has been a major player in Washington for many years — as a health policy adviser to key Republican Senators, a representative of the health insurance industry and now as president for the past eight years of the…
By a vote of 315 to 199, AMA delegates reaffirmed the association's support of the health reform bills in Congress, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal Washington Wire.
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New laws passed in Texas and Oregon have the potential to bolster already strong growth in the ASC business and fundamentally alter the market for outpatient surgical care. The new laws mandate transparency in the cost of and reimbursement for…
SourceMedical, a leading provider of outpatient information management solutions, announced that it has earned Cardinal Health's Innovation Award, an honor that recognizes leading innovators in the healthcare industry, according to a SourceMedical news release.
Weight Loss Surgical Center is planning to build a specialty hospital in Overland Park, Kan., called Blue Valley Hospital, according to a report in the Kansas City Business Journal.
Abbott Medical Optics is recalling all lots of Vitrex II, Ophthalmic Viscosurgical Device, 0.65 mL, manufactured by Lifecore Biomedical, after the company received information that the pH of the product in some syringes exceeded the specified range of 6.8-7.5, according…