Practice Management News

Artificial intelligence could help hospitals improve infection prevention efforts and make their outbreak responses faster and more accurate, according to experts.

When I first entered the medical profession more than 30 years ago, I was taken by the amount of trash that was produced in the emergency department where I volunteered.

The CDC published a guide that hospitals can use to reduce the risk for burnout among health care staff.

Use of an electronic health record-based intervention significantly increased PrEP use among patients of primary care physicians who care for people with HIV, a randomized trial found.

Non-catheter-associated hospital-onset were a common source for hospital-onset bacteremia and fungemia and associated with longer hospital stays and higher hospital costs, researchers found.

As we discussed in our overview of the private equity, or PE, physician practice model, the buyer in an acquisition is often a PE-sponsored management services organization that purchases the nonclinical aspects of the practice’s business.

Completing medical education and training is a monumental achievement that can launch a successful lifetime career.

DENVER — Syphilis is often asymptomatic. Increased testing of at-risk patients — especially if a new rash or welt is spotted on their body — could help catch more cases, an expert said here.

DENVER — A universal opt-out ED syphilis screening program led to a significant increase in syphilis testing and case diagnoses among pregnant patients, researchers reported.

When I was in high school, I was given the opportunity to take a part-time job that was a little out of the ordinary for my age: I worked for a clinical microbiologist selling sterile sheep blood to microbiology laboratories to make bacterial culture agar.