What is the best-sized packaging for medications that are being used in patient care areas?...

Big changes in healthcare mean big changes in the way providers and payers talk. Many terms being bandied about don't have clear or solid meanings, but this guide helps sort things out....

The pressure to reduce readmissions and preserve reimbursements will only increase in 2014. Healthcare providers will be especially concerned with curbing hospital-acquired conditions....

When an emergency requires the use of LIPs who are not current members of your medical staff, an abbreviated process is acceptable. That process must include what forms of identification for the LIPs?...

Hospitals and physicians are increasingly working together to be more forthcoming with patients about medical errors and other causes of bad outcomes....

Hospitals and physicians are increasingly working together to be more forthcoming with patients about medical errors and other causes of bad outcomes....

Some nursing leadership trends emerged quietly this year, but are nonetheless provocative for how they force us to think about nursing and how they force nurses to think about themselves as caregivers...

A recent advisory released by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Advisory (PPSA) in September 2013 focuses on one aspect of EHRs that has been particularly challenging in terms of improving patient saf...

Last month, we began our review of the year's most-cited Joint Commission standards by discussing the top 10 most challenging issues of 2013. This month, we continue our analysis and look at the remai...

They say that good things come to those who wait, and professionals in just about every sector of healthcare have been patiently waiting-nearly six years, in fact-for the FDA's final ruling on uniqu...