Quality and Safety

An adversarial relationship between providers and payers is counterproductive to the purpose of healthcare - with patients being caught in the middle.

– A new partnership will seek to market Internet-based personal health records to health insurers for their customers.

Nurse-on-nurse, doctor-on-doctor, doctor-on-nurse - workplace bullying takes many different forms, all of them serious. The effects of workplace bullying are far-reaching and have bottom-line implications for the institutions that overlook or allow such behavior.

Two suburban Chicago healthcare providers are developing what they call a “ground-breaking” joint venture to improve quality care in the region.

There are some who argue that human beings are violent by nature.

The Department of Health and Human Services has launched an initiative to reward hospitals for the quality of care they provide to Medicare beneficiaries.

When Jennifer Searfoss realized she had a urinary tract infection, she made a decision more and more Americans are making: She went to a retail health clinic for care.

Studies have shown that therapy gardens help patients and residents of long-term care facilities experience less stress, lowered blood pressure and improvements in mood and socialization and have a more balanced circadian rhythm. Alzheimer’s patients, meanwhile, experience a decrease in aggressive behavior.

A recent survey of employers shows more than half would like to improve their employees' health habits as a means of reining in the rising cost of providing health benefits.

With six months to go before the HIPAA 5010 electronic claims submissions compliance date, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have announced two 5010 national testing days.