As much as hospital executives would like to bill their patients quickly, healthcare’s billing processes are complicated and ...

Implementing a well-established business approach allowed physicians to shave hours off pediatric patient discharges without affecting readmission rates, according to researchers at Penn State Hershey ...

Due to changing conditions in the healthcare environment, many hospitals believe it is time that they move away from independence and toward some form of a transaction. A transaction has the potential ...

Hospitals have more digital tools than ever, yet throughput continues to suffer. Since 2017, emergency department encounters lasting over eight hours have nearly doubled, inpatient units are strained ...

On January 13, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new streamlined survey and certification process for psychiatric hospitals as part of the agency’s “Patients over ...

LIFE St. Mary, a hospital in the Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic health system, had a manual process to request medication refills and fill pillboxes. The pharmacy was not integrated with the electronic ...