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ASC Initiates Several Changes; Cuts Turnover Time
As often happens with efficiency initiatives and quality improvement projects, the first big effort to make process changes can result in swift and significant improvement. The second round of changes often is more challenging as an organization attempts additional improvements.
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ASC’s ‘Pit Crew’ Brings NASCAR Speed to Turnovers
An ASC won a national award for its quality improvement and efficiency project to reduce average operating room turnover time, which was 22.8 minutes.
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Considering Adding Bundled Payments? Here’s What You Need to Know
The key thing for ASC directors to know about bundled payments is that these are developed to reduce healthcare costs, improve outcome accountability, and create situations in which payers and providers share risk, savings, and costs.
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Bundled Payment Models Growing Slowly in ASCs’ World
Bundled payments are a small part of the business for most ambulatory surgery centers, but the model is catching on and could be a major future trend in surgery reimbursement strategies.
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Program Offers Psychological First Aid, Support to Healthcare Workers Following Traumatic Events
New data show approach can deliver financial dividends to hospitals as well as emotional well-being to individuals who use the resource.
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Telemedicine Links Pediatric Emergency Physicians With Practitioners in Community Hospital EDs
What if young pediatric patients in community hospitals could be evaluated by physicians who specialize in pediatric emergency medicine without the need for a transfer?
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Rural Hospitals Connect Local Providers With Experienced Emergency Physicians
Developers note that the success of a telemedicine program over eight years offers a model for other regions struggling with severe emergency medicine staff shortages.
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FDA Actions
In this section: FDA approves new treatments for breast cancer and hepatitis C.
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Study: Idarucizumab Safely Reverses Anticoagulant Effect of Dabigatran
Promising evidence emerges about the efficacy of the first reversal agent for one of the non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants.
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How Long Should Patients Take Antibiotics?
Researchers from the United Kingdom proclaim 'the antibiotic course has had its day.'