The following are eight reports on antibiotic-related news and studies from the last month:
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Attitudes in the healthcare industry are shifting from a "no-blame" hospital culture that leans toward system improvements to assigning blame for individual errors. According to a study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, healthcare providers and patients think physicians…
More than 25.4 million traditional Medicare beneficiaries received at least one free preventive service during the first 11 months of 2013, according to CMS.
A bill recently introduced into the House of Representatives would require physicians to consult electronic clinical decision support resources before ordering diagnostic imaging tests for Medicare patients.
A majority — 72 percent — of Americans prefer to see a physician over a nonphysician provider for their medical care, according to a survey conducted by Iposos, a private research think tank.
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Apollo Endosurgery has raised $60.7 million of a planned $63.7 million financing, according to an Austin Business Journal report.
Ambulatory surgery center leaders are quickly becoming more educated and conscientious consumers when it comes to electronic medical records, says Craig Veach, senior vice president of corporate relations at software solutions vendor AmkaiSolutions, maker of the ASC EMR AmkaiCharts.
Endo Health Solutions plans to acquire migraine treatment maker NuPathe for $105 million, according to a Sun Herald report.
Around 45 percent of physicians in the United States report regularly accessing clinical data outside of their organization, according to a survey from Accenture.
The average freestanding ambulatory surgery center has 4.62 Medicare-approved operating rooms per 100,000 population, according to an article published in LexisNexis.