Despite the fact that nearly 20% of Americans live in rural areas, rural hospitals have historically faced momentous challenges that ...

Health and Human Services (HHS) announced goals to shift Medicare payments from quantity-based compensation toward result-based compensation for healthcare providers ...

Perhaps few other medical disciplines are as reliant upon, and willing to adapt to, technology in the name of advancing ...

Recent advances in telehealth promise to improve health outcomes – and save both time and money. Using a wide variety ...

Healthcare insurance is financial protection that reduces the risk of debt due to healthcare expenses. Americans have historically sought coverage ...

Because endoscopic procedures, such as colonoscopy and esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) tend to be uncomfortable and invasive, procedural sedation plays a crucial ...

Following the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) in 2009, the healthcare industry ...

Anesthesia can be administered in a variety of settings. Office-based anesthesia has become increasingly more common (1). Between 1995 and ...

Due to the complexity of the third-party medical payment system, insurance companies sometimes overpay or underpay anesthesia practices. If an ...

Nurses have been providing anesthesia care for patients in the United States for almost 150 years (1). Even before the ...

The electronic health record (EHR) is a longitudinal electronic record of patient health information collected in multiple care delivery settings ...

New research on the rare amino acid isovaline shows that it could act as an effective pain reliever with few ...