As hospitals and physicians work toward improving healthcare through quality improvement processes, senior level managers may experience some "push back" or hesitance from staff members who may be less willing to learn new processes and protocols. Here are three tips…
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Although use of nurse practitioners may improve some areas of patient safety, such as timely discharge summaries, they may not necessarily improve hospital readmission rates, according to research published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
Gary Franklin, MD, medical director for the Department of Labor and Industries, and Jeff Thompson, MD, medical director for the Health Care Authority, wrote in a Seattle Times editorial that although the methadone deaths are increasing in Washington State, the…
Acupuncture has been used for thousands of years, but reception for the procedure by the Western medical community has been lukewarm at best. Christian Nix, who is opening an acupuncture clinic in Chicago's Mercy Hospital in Feb. 2012, is trying…
The New Jersey Assembly is considering whether to vote on a new bill that would phase out the state's cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
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Here are five recently introduced pieces of legislation that affect the medical device industry.
Peter Arduini, formerly the president of medication delivery for Baxter Healthcare, has been named the CEO of Integra LifeSciences, according to a Crain's Chicago Business report.
Johns Hopkins has received a grant from the Helene Fuld Health Trust in New York City that will fund a leadership program designed to produce 200 new nurses with a focus on healthcare quality and safety.
Los Angeles County supervisors have voted in favor of pursuing a law that would put the state Department of Health Services in charge of oversight of outpatient surgery centers, according to a Los Angeles Times report.