CMS has released the ASC Quality Reporting Specifications Manual, version 1.0, according to the ASC Association.
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President Obama's healthcare reform law focuses in part on reducing "unnecessary care," or tests and procedures ordered for reasons other than medical necessity. Despite the goal's good intentions, many physicians object to the push to reduce "unnecessary care," saying reality…
Because compensation packages vary so much across physician specialties, there's bound to be both satisfaction and discontent, and in 2011, the overall satisfaction with pay was down across most physician specialties, according to Medscape's 2012 Physician Compensation Report.
World Hand Hygiene Day is May 5, and UMF Corporation is taking this occasion to remind healthcare administrators and staff that without environmental hand hygiene as a component, hand-washing programs will likely fail in reducing preventable healthcare-associated infections.
Covidien has acquired Israel-based PolyTouch Medical, a developer of hernia mesh placement technologies, according to a news release.
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Optovue has announced it has received FDA 510(k) clearance of the XR version of its RTVue FD-OCT system, according to a news release (pdf).
Following the passage of House Bill 1 last week, some pain physicians are questioning the necessity and logistics behind the bill's requirement that physicians consult the state's online drug database, KASPER, prior to prescribing pain medication to a patient, according…
A new drug developed by Tel Aviv University researchers has been licensed by pharmaceutical company BioLineRx and offers a new treatment option to patients with neuropathic pain.
Physicians in small practices, older physicians and non-primary care specialists are among the slowest to adopt electronic health records, according to a new study published in Health Affairs.
The recent certification maintenance process changes for physician assistants are modeled after the ABMS model and should be embraced, Wanda Gonsalves, MD, wrote in an editorial in the Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants.