New Jersey has two types of “surgery centers.” Of the 300 registered surgery centers, about half are traditional licensed ambulatory surgical centers (ASC). They fall under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health. The other half are registered physician surgical practices, known as “one-...
In 2014, the national government mandated the use of electronic health records (EHR) for all physicians and hospitals receiving Medicare reimbursement, and since then, physicians across the country have been struggling to adapt. Initially, the transition to EHRs...
"Team leadership is initially about setting goals, constraints and guiding principles to help them through. Then, let them drive the daily operations and make the decisions."
- Jeff Rosenfeld, manager of strategic innovation and project management at Tahoe Forest Hospital District in...
A surgical team in Argentina—comprised of a surgeon, an anesthesiologist, two surgical assistants, and a surgical nurse—has been suspended after taking photos mid-surgery and later posting them online. Photos posted on Lorena Olguin’s social media account show the team posing for pictures in...
"I was surprised that the measure changes were not huge. The measures that have been proposed for removal are not that highly used—we were expecting some of them to go away."
- Ida Mantashi, chair of the Electronic Health Record Association's Quality Measurement Workgroup, discusses CMS' ...
