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Electronic health records increasingly include automated alert systems pegged to patientsā health information. In some cases, though, the sheer volume of these messages has become unmanageable.
Although there is widespread agreement on the need to let people know if they havenāt been admitted, the language proposed by federal officials hasnāt satisfied everyone.
The average patient stay costs $4,000 more at Sutter and Dignity hospitals than at other California medical centers, study shows.
Because of the important role sleep plays in healing, a trend is emerging in which childrenās hospitals are reorganizing their workflow to help their young patients sleep through the night.
Federal law seeks to protect the privacy of patientsā health information, but sometimes leaving parents out of the loop can complicate the patientās recovery.
The Missouri Hospital Association objects to the formula for setting the federal penalties because it does not factor in the number of patients who are poor or in bad health. It is seeking to generate consumer interest in the penalties.
Thousands of patients at the San Diego-area hospital may have been exposed to infection last year because of unsanitary conditions in the compounding lab where IVs were mixed, officials found.
Federal officials delayed the release of the ratings after the hospital industry and members of Congress objected to the formula, saying it worked against hospitals that take the patients that are the toughest to treat.
A nonprofit patient safety group devised nationally standardized measures to help pregnant women gauge hospitals on quality of maternity care.
The problems persist even after Congress in 2012 gave the FDA enhanced powers to respond when drug levels are low.
New research highlights the paradox in the federal program to improve hospital quality.
A new study explores why the most profitable U.S. hospitals are who they are.
New research sheds light on the growing costs to the health care system associated with painkiller and heroin abuse.
Bad coordination and communication can put patients at risk as they're discharged from a hospital.
The prestigious facilities are seeking to improve patient safety by getting surgeons and hospitals to pledge to meet minimum thresholds for 10 high-risk procedures.
Private insurers that administer Medicaid for the poor also face limits on profits and requirements to provide sufficient doctors.
The āoverall hospital qualityā rating is designed to help consumers who are sometimes confused by the variety of quality measures that the government already provides. But members of Congress had asked for the delay because of concerns that the methodology for the stars was not accurate.
Nearly half of academic medical centers will be penalized by the government this year for high rates of infections and other avoidable complications, but the hospitals say it shows they screen better for problems.
Researchers found that the facility fees hospitals and their clinics routinely add to the bill helps drive the price increases.
A California Assembly bill would require creating a mandatory registry for available psychiatric hospital beds, but the state hospital association calls it unworkable.
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