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The American College of Surgeons provides guidelines to help surgeons improve quality and patient safety in its 2017 manual, Optimal Resources for Surgical Quality and Safety. Here are six strategies the ACS recommends, with details according to McKesson.

New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers President Jeff Shanton said a report by The Record and NorthJersey.com misrepresents ASCs and the quality of care they provide by using anecdotal information and allegations from ongoing lawsuits. Here are four insights.

Grifols, a producer of plasma-derived medicines, entered a distribution agreement with Henry Schein, which will market and distribute Grifol's 500 milliliter normal saline solution in the U.S.

Covalon Technologies' MediClear PreOp received Frost & Sullivan's 2018 North American Surgical Site Infection Prevention New Product Innovation Award.

AORN Syntegrity and Intelligent Medical Objects partnered to create the PeriopIT technology for operating room scheduling systems and EHRs. Here are five insights.

The use of a Silverlon reduced the incidence of superficial and deep prosthetic joint infection after total joint replacement, a study in the Journal of the Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons found. The Harvard Combined Residency Program conducted the study, and the…

The percentage of patients that didn't pay the full balance for hospital bills of $500 or less increased 15 percent from 2015 to 2016, according to a TransUnion Healthcare analysis. Here are five statistics.

CMS will partner with clinicians, patients and others to develop, improve, update and expand quality measures in the Quality Payment Program. Here are six details. 

UnitedHealth released its annual value-based care report, which showed employer-sponsored and individual ACOs perform better on 87 percent of the top quality measures than non-ACOs.

For the third quarter of 2017, from July 1 to Sept. 30, the ASC Quality Collaboration released quality report numbers based on data from 1,484 ASCs.