Recent budget cuts may decrease the effectiveness of California's prescription drug database, a longtime tool for pain management physicians to curb prescription drug abuse, according to an NPR report.
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Employment of registered nurses is expected to grow by 22 percent through 2018, with much of the demand concentrated in physician offices, according to a Healthcare Finance News report.
U.S. physicians trail physicians in other countries when it comes to social media use, according to a study reported in InformationWeek, and malpractice liability concerns may be the culprit.
Michael Romansky, JD, is a senior lobbyist and vice president of corporate development for the Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society.
John Caruso, MD, has more than 16 years of neurological surgery experience and currently offers his medical expertise at Neurosurgical Specialists and serves as founder, chairman of the board and medical director of Parkway Surgery Center and Parkway Neuroscience &…
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The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation is adding productivity analysis and error rate tools to its sterile processing benchmarks tool. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on AAMI’s sterile processing benchmarking tool.
The ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization announced an updated version of its adverse event collection and reporting system, which now includes the latest formats for health information technology reporting and enhancements to the device-related forms. Read the full report in…
The managing editor of Heart Rhythm said St. Jude Medical’s request to retract an article about its recalled Riata device “is not going to happen,” according to a Star Tribune report. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on…
Don Casey Jr. has been named leader of the $9 billion medical and product services division of Cardinal Health, where he will oversee surgical products and services for ambulatory surgery centers, according to a UT San Diego report.
3M has announced it has acquired CodeRyte, a Bethesda, Md.-based provider of clinical natural language processing (NLP) technology and computer-assisted coding solutions for outpatient providers, according to a news release.