A study, conducted by the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, showed that the incidence of dermatitis increased 4.5 times in healthcare workers after hand hygiene compliance increased, according to a European Cleaning Journal report.
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The Pennsylvania eHealth Partnership Authority has granted up to $11.8 million in funds to connect hospitals and ambulatory centers to the Pennsylvania Patient & Provider Network, or P3N, which enables electronic health information across the state.
A new study in The New England Journal of Medicine provides data on which commonly used antibiotic is most effective for uncomplicated skin infections, Clindamycin or Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole?
According to research by Thomas Obadia and colleagues published in PLOS Computational Biology, wireless sensors recording human interactions reveal close proximity interactions between patient and healthcare workers in Berck-sur-Mer hospital, France, acted as pathways for the transmission of S. aureus…
Robinwood Surgery Center in Hagerstown, Md., has closed, and now more than 1,100 medical supplies and items will be auctioned off online, according to a Your4state report.
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1. Midtown Surgery Center announced the first-ever use of robotics during a total extra-peritoneal hernia repair, according to a statement, performed by Mark Reiner, MD, and Brian Katz, MD.
Crain's New York Business reports Montefiore Medical Center will not open an ASC in the Bronx, which would have included cardiology, nephrology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, cancer infusion and radiology.
In its annual hospital EHR user poll, Black Book surveyed 5,000 hospital EHR technology staff ballots and 14,000 nursing users, representing 702 hospitals in polls conducted from August 2014 to February 2015. Here are three key notes from the findings:
The annual hospital EHR poll conducted by Black Book Market Research found hospitals with over 250 beds ranked Allscripts Sunrise platform number one for the second consecutive year as top inpatient electronic health record.
A USA Today investigation found that in cases where duodenoscope-linked CRE broke out in hospitals, the hospitals actually relied on an automated endoscope reprocessor for disinfection which was actually cleared by the FDA 10 years ago.