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Erik Steele, DO, CMO of Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems in Bangor, Maine, has urged healthcare providers to make patients and their families a part of managing their health by issuing their own patient co-pilot safety checklists, according to an editorial…

Nurses' aides win the top spot for having the most violent job in Washington State, according to a Seattle Time news report.

Kelli McMahon, vice president of operations for the eastern region at Pinnacle III in Fort Collins, Colo., pinpoints 10 ways to lower supply costs.

The Cattails are a series of brushes designed to increase the amount of brushing action without buckling, according to a Cygnus report. The brushes are designed to pull through the instruments, so ASC staff only needs to insert the leader…

Bunny Twiford, RN, is president of Twiford Consulting in Warminster, Pa.

As part of its crackdown on pill mills, Ohio is now requiring physicians engaged in pain treatments to take continuing medical education courses on pain management, according to a report by PainWeek.

Medtronic has issued an urgent medical device correction on its SynchroMed II implantable drug infusion pumps, warning that the batteries in certain devices might suddenly fail, according to a news release by Medtronic.

A researcher at the University of Georgia has invented an inexpensive technology that makes fabrics permanently germ-free, according to a news release by the University of Georgia.

A U.S. Army task force has recommended shifting from simply dispensing pain medications to using a much wider armamentarium of pain management techniques, according to a report by the Marine Corps Times.

A suit alleging that John Reynolds, former CEO of Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, solicited kickbacks from vendors will move forward. Read more coverage at Becker’s Hospital Review.