U.S. hospitals reported three areas of strengthteamwork, supervisor/manager expectations and actions promoting patient safety, and patient safetyin the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)'s "Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2011 User Comparative Database Report."

Only 57 percent of children in the U.S. have access to a medical home, according to researchers at the Health Resources and Services Administrations (HRSA) Maternal and Child Health Bureau.  

Fujifilm Medical Systems USA and Nuance Communications have partnered to sell Nuances dictation systems to Fujifilms radiology customers.

Among patients with three-vessel or left main coronary artery disease, there was greater relief from angina after CABG than after PCI at six and 12 months, although the extent of the benefit was small, according to the quality-of-life data that emerged from the SYNTAX trial, which was published in the March 17 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Match Day last week saw 11 percent more U.S. applicants matched to family medicine residencies than in 2010, according to the Advance Data Tables for the 2011 Main Residency Match of the National Resident Matching Program.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released the National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Healthcare to guide local, state and national efforts to improve the quality of healthcare in the U.S.

Evolvent Technologies has received seven new Military Health System (MHS) task orders for healthcare-related technology.

Coupling an electronic prescription drug ordering system with a computerized method for reporting adverse events can dramatically reduce the number of medication errors in a hospital's psychiatric unit, according to research published in the March edition of The Journal of Psychiatric Practice.