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Health Catalyst launched the Patient Safety Monitor Suite: Surveillance Module, the first comprehensive patient safety application to combine data reviewed by clinician and predictive text analytics to monitor, predict and prevent threats to patient safety before harm occurs.

In the last 12 months, reimbursement has increased by less than 1 percent on average across inpatient, outpatient and ASC settings, according to a Leerink Partners report.

Antibiotic overuse is more prevalent in urgent care clinics than other ambulatory care settings, according to an article published in JAMA Internal Medicine, reported on by Medscape.

An academic practice setting appeals to about one-third of physicians in training, while nearly the same percent of practicing physicians prefer a single-specialty group or partnership, according to The Medicus Firm 2018 Physician Practice Preference & Relocation Survey.

The HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is no longer supporting the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality National Guideline Clearinghouse due to cuts in President Donald Trump’s federal budget, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians. The…

When HSTpathways CEO Tom Hui founded his company and set about developing an EHR for the ASC setting, he did it with the unique challenges of surgery centers in mind.

The percent of patients in value-based programs is expected to double within three years, according to a HealthLeaders Media Intelligence Report. 

McKesson, AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health shipped a combined 1.6 billion doses of opioids into Missouri from 2012 through 2017, according to a report Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., released July 12.

Fourteen percent of companies pay no premium for a surgery center with a certificate of need, according to HealthCare Appraisers' 2018 ASC Valuation Survey. 

The three recipients of the 2018 John M. Eisenberg Award are featured in the Journal on Quality and Patient Safety's July issue.