Medtronic has cancelled five contracts with healthcare supply contracting company Novation, which is owned by VHA and the University HealthSystem Consortium, according to a news release.
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Five anesthesiologists specializing in pain management and interventional spine procedures are opening Jersey Shore Pain Management in Egg Harbor Township, N.J., according to a Press of Atlantic City news report.
Among Pennsylvania patients who acquired a healthcare-associated infection in 2009, 29.8 percent were readmitted within 30 days for an infection or complication, according to a Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council report.
Amerinet, a national healthcare group purchasing organization, has announced it is hosting a three-part online complimentary educational webinar series aimed at helping hospitals and integrated delivery networks address critical revenue enhancement issues.
AmSurg has reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31, 2010, highlighted by an 11 percent increase in revenues, 9 percent increase in procedures and 2 percent increase in average revenue per procedure for the…
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Christopher Holden, CEO of AmSurg, expressed his concerns about the economy's impact on his company and other ambulatory surgery center operators in a report from The Tennessean.
Wolters Kluwer Health has announced Riverside (Calif.) Community Hospital has selected its ProVation MD software for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding.
The General Hospital Corporation and Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, representing Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, has agreed to pay the U.S. government $1 million to settle allegations that the hospital system violated the HIPAA privacy rule, according to a news…
Choice of antibiotic did not affect recovery rate for skin infections, according to a study by Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
As many as 70 percent of healthcare-acquired infections may be preventable with current evidence-based strategies, says Craig A. Umscheid, MD, assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania.