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Mayo Clinic plans to commercialize its analytics, publishing and sharing algorithms through Apervita's secure self-service healthcare analytics platform, according to an HIT Consultant report.

A recent survey found that only 4% of nurses are content with the condition of their hands while on the job. Medline Industries, Inc. asks hospitals across the U.S. whose nurses struggle with dry, irritated skin on the job, to try…

Representatives have introduced legislation that would alter meaningful use attestation requirements for eligible professionals treating patients in ASCs.

Fierce Health IT reports that  Iowa City-based University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics has reduced surgical infections after colon surgery by 58 percent using predictive analytics, according to a Health IT Outcomes report.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that approximately 500,000 people were infected with C. difficile in 2011, according to a report by U.S. World & News Report.

The group that guides the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on performance measures for the federal quality reporting program is recommending two new measures for the ASC Quality Reporting Program, according to an ASCA report.

Here are six key observations on healthcare spending from Altarum Institute Center for Sustainable Health Spending's Health Sector Trend Report released in January:

The American Medical Association announced that there are seven recipients of the 2015 Dr. Nathan Davis Award for Outstanding Government Service.

Xenex, the company behind the Xenon Full Spectrum UV Germ-Zapping Robot, has joined the National Patient Safety Foundation Patient Safety Coalition.

Deciding where to practice is important because many physicians want to establish themselves in the right place to build a successful practice.