Press Ganey launched the Outpatient and Ambulatory Surgery Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Early Adopter Program, which expands the company's CAHPS solutions.
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Medical practice acquisition and integration is becoming commonplace in healthcare. Independent physicians, faced with regulatory changes, find advantages in joining a larger group or becoming employed by the hospital.
The vizHOME is a virtual re-creation of a home, where the visitor uses "active stereo glasses" allowing one to see the home in 3-D. Housed in a small room in the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, the recreation is a very…
Although everyone from Terry Jones, the Lewin Group and Charles Krauthammer have been pessimistic about issues such as the Affordable Care Act and EHRs, Dan Diamond, contributor for Forbes, argues that the real reason physicians are quitting is because of…
The ambulatory surgery center industry continued significant levels of acquisition activity in 2014, and acquisition activity is expected to remain high for 2015, according to the HealthCare Appraisers "2015 ASC Valuation Survey."
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Drug shortages are a rising healthcare issue facing the country, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Preoperative methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus decontamination decreased the surgical site infection rate significantly among patients undergoing elective orthopedic surgery with hardware implantation, according to a recent study published in JAMA Surgery.
The Oregon Patient Safety Commission was created to improve patient safety, and has been collecting information which they annually publish, but this year, the percentage of facilities reporting mistakes was down 2 percent from 2013, now at about 11 percent,…
The United States military inadvertently shipped live anthrax via FedEx, which resulted in four lab workers in the United States and up to 22 overseas being put in post-exposure treatment, reports CNN.
Health Catalyst, a data warehousing and analytics company, launched an educational program, Health Catalyst Academy, to help health systems improve quality by using data to aid their operational decisions.