There exist over 5,000 Medicare certified ASCs in the country, up from around 3,000 ASCs a decade ago. Over 90 percent of these ASCs have physician ownership. Around 20 percent of the ASCs have a ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) recently finalized the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM). With that rule, ...

Vall d’Hebron reorganized care into Knowledge Areas; the Heart Area pilot cut length of stay by 18%, 30-day readmissions by ...

Many U.S. hospitals using predictive models are not evaluating their tools internally for accuracy, and fewer still are evaluating them for potential biases, according to a study published in the most ...

Silvia Aparecida Corrêa Sanches, an administrative supervisor with 15 years of experience in the hospital sector, is leading the adoption of continuous improvement methodologies—such as Lean Six Sigma ...

Managing visitors is a key aspect of hospital management, presenting several considerations for patient and building security, staff workflow, regulatory compliance, and patient privacy. Visitor ...

The extensive use of emerging technologies like generative AI and consultations in the metaverse may be in the cards for hospitals in Shanghai, China. The 2,000-bed Zhongshan Hospital has been tasked ...