Whether a patient, a cousin’s spouse, a co-worker, we all know someone carrying for a terminally ill relative. Jennifer O’Brien offers sage advice to those caregivers and she also provides guidance for physician leaders on how they can be examples i...

Integrating appropriately trained behavioral health providers as healthcare team members is important for elevating and extending the care delivery of the entire team.

The COVID-19 pandemic presented an opportunity to explore innovative preparedness, including a novel ED staffing model using redeployed physicians from other services.

A quality improvement initiative was conducted with a primary objective to reduce time to third next available appointment (TNAA) while decreasing the number of patients referred to urgent care.

Shorter hospital stays after surgery lead to fewer complications and better outcomes. But building a faster pathway home requires every member of the health care team to work together with more efficient protocols.

The role of medical coders has advanced dramatically in the last few decades with the arrival of encoders, specialized software programs that assist in choosing codes. With this technology, the coding process has been streamlined and accuracy in pati...

Artificial intelligence is disrupting every area of life, including the way organizations find talent.

How do you get people to thoroughly wash their hands? Or to stay six feet away from others as part of a precautionary “social distancing” protocol? Or to refrain from visiting loved ones in nursing homes? These questions have taken on a life-or-death...

Influenced by state legislation as well as the efforts of institutional investors and other diversity advocates, companies have been adding more diverse directors to their boards than ever before.

Every year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) conducts a review of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes and the corresponding Work Relative Value Unit (wRVU) values to determine if changes are needed based on the time, sk...

Preoperative care centers (PCCs) improve patient satisfaction and reduce the number of day-of-surgery cancellations; however, optimal staffing models have not been established. At the center in our study, the PCC structure was altered to include a fu...

Every year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) conducts a review of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes and the corresponding Work Relative Value Unit (wRVU) values to determine if changes are needed based on the time, sk...