Supply chain standards development organization GS1 Healthcare US has released guidance for using certain standards to implement Unique Device Identification requirements as promulgated by the FDA in September 2013.

A new study validates two novel biomarkers as predictive of acute kidney injury, or acute renal failure, an asymptomatic condition that often is fatal.

A new report commissioned by the American Medical Association attempts to quantify the direct and indirect economic output of physicians in order to educate policy makers and the public.

Hope Cancer Institute in Kansas City and its owner Raj Sadasivan, M.D., were accused of submitting Medicare claims for chemotherapy drugs that were never provided.

Boston’s prestigious Tufts Medical Center teaching hospital will partner with Lowell General Hospital, a community hospital with two campuses in Lowell, Mass., under a new parent company yet to be named.

A key element of healthcare is leveraging technology and system efficiencies to allow individual providers to see more patients. But as the number of patients goes up, so does a provider’s malpractice risk according to a new study from the RAND Corporation.

A report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services indicates that more providers are taking part in the Physician Quality Reporting System and electronic prescribing is rising.

A new report by independent consulting firm Kaufman Hall finds that U.S. hospital merger and acquisition activity increased 3 percent in 2013, with deals announced for 98 hospital and health system combinations.