Healthcare quality issues are a typical legal issue. Healthcare quality issues are a typical legal issue. People who emphasize on serving others must address the ethical and social values. Policy ...

A whole industry is devoted to measuring, tracking and even incentivizing the quality of American hospital care. Unfortunately, that industry is horribly inefficient, costing us billions of dollars.

New research harnessed CMS data to show the connection between high-quality care and lower readmission rates. Researchers examined a hospitalwide readmissions cohort of more than 2.7 million Medicare ...

A March 11 report from the Peterson Center on Healthcare and KFF tracks the performance of healthcare systems over the last few decades. The Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker measured ...

Editor’s note: Alice Brewer is the senior director of clinical affairs at PDI Healthcare. The latest list of hospitals facing federal penalties for poor quality has been released. Through hospital ...

Accessing high-quality healthcare in the United States has become increasingly complex. While technological advances have fostered extraordinary innovation in medicine and digital record keeping, the ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

A recently published study in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons proposed using the rate of discharge to post-acute care facilities after major surgery as a benchmark for hospital quality ...

We all know that high quality comes with a higher price. A Mercedes Benz automobile costs more than a Ford. Designer and custom clothing costs more than off-the-rack apparel. A room at the ...

New York is the worst state to get sick in America, with medical expenses reaching $14,000 per person and emergency rooms ...