An estimated 25-30% of total healthcare spend in the U.S. can be traced to inefficient patient throughput, delayed access to treatment, excess length of stay, preventable readmissions and ...

Vital information about diagnoses, medications, and follow-up care is often delayed, incomplete, or missed altogether when patients are discharged from hospital, an investigation has found. The Health ...

With Medicare no longer reimbursing hospitals for certain preventable readmissions within 30 days of discharge, the onus now is on providers to improve transitions from acute to ambulatory and home ...

With careful selection, same-day hospital discharge was found to be feasible and safe in around one-fifth of patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation in a study presented today at ...

A new study published in JAMA Network Open demonstrates that hospital virtual discharge meetings between patients, hospitalists and primary care doctors significantly improve patient satisfaction and ...

Can you safely have brain and spine surgery in an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) and go home the same day? What does the ...

At 8 years old, he was a happy second grader and enthusiastic soccer player. Then, his family’s car hit a median on the highway, and the crash ejected him from the vehicle. He spent nearly 3 months in ...