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A pinpoint beam strays invisibly, harming instead of healing
Stereotactic radiosurgery, or SRS, is one of the fastest-growing radiation therapies, a technological innovation...
Pill mill doc gets 25-year prison term
A former San Fernando physician convicted of improperly prescribing powerful painkillers to drug addicts and undercover...
Baylor heart hospital has lowest readmission rate in the U.S. for second straight year
  Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital, for the second year in a row, had the lowest readmission rate for heart...
Florida hospitals join forces to cut readmissions
  Eighty-one hospitals in Florida are teaming up with one important goal: to reduce the number of infections...
Hospital Nearly Doubles Medication Scanning Rates
Following the implementation of an organizationwide bar code scanning process in September 2008, Springfield, MA-based...
Web Exclusive: Making Improved Medication IQ Part of the Treatment
In this era of polypharmacy, the route to safer, more effective care may lie with how a patient answers this question...
Bar code administration systems can reduce medication errors
Bar code medication administration is one tool being adopted by hospitals to help reduce medication errors. BCMA...
Star student's suicide prompts precedent-setting suit
A Colorado physician who used the Internet to prescribe an antidepressant to a Stanford University student he'd never...
Study urges low-tech solutions for medical errors
Standardizing the look of medication labels could significantly decrease costly and potentially harmful medication...
Pfizer launches new website on medication safety
Pfizer has launched a new website on medication safety designed to help patients bewildered over how to weigh the risks...

Book: Statistics Basics: A Resource Guide for Healthcare Managers
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Book: A Practical Guide to Managing Disruptive and Impaired Physicians, Second Edition
Don’t let disruptive physician behavior and impairment negatively affect your hospital’s operations or put your...
Book: The Healthcare Executive's Guide to ACO Strategy
Audio Conference: Slash Your Readmission Rates
With 20% of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries discharged from a hospital being readmitted within 30 days, two of...