According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), approximately 8 million American healthcare workers are potentially exposed to hazardous drugs each year. And in May, th...

There’s been a flood of different measures and metrics in recent years. CMS, Joint Commission, hospital organizations, and vendors each have their own way of calculating a hospital’s ranki...

CMS has finalized a much anticipated rule that serves as a significant step in tying quality care with value-based payments. The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) institut...

For many surgeons and physicians, the hardest thing they will have to do in their medical career is talk to a patient about a medical error. Although communication and resolution programs are becoming...

On one hand, physicians are experts that people seek out because of their knowledge of human health. On the other, physicians are still their patients’ employees. While physicians can strongly e...

A new study found that out of the 310 million surgery patients who receive surgery every year, 50 million suffer postoperative complications and more than 1.5 million die from those complications. Sur...

Logic says that electronic health records (EHR) should be a huge boon to healthcare quality. Up-to-date recordkeeping, real-time data, less paperwork, simpler transfers of information, electronic al...

A new report from The Joint Commission finds that U.S. hospitals are improving patient safety and quality when treating patients for common conditions. ...

Logic says that electronic health records (EHR) should be a huge boon to healthcare quality. Up-to-date recordkeeping, real-time data, less paperwork, simpler transfers of information, electronic aler...

Although overall antibiotic usage in U.S. hospitals has remained steady, the rate of powerful, broad spectrum antibiotics has increased at a worrisome rate, according to CDC researchers. A study pu...