Here are the 10 most popular patient safety tools for the week of Aug. 5 to 9, 2013, beginning with the most popular.
Practice Management
Hospitals in St. Louis-based Ascension Health implement infection prevention practices differently, according to a study in the American Journal of Infection Control.
Most physicians believe that accountable care organizations will be successful in introducing performance reporting and benchmarking, according to Deloitte's 2013 Survey of U.S. Physicians.
A study published in JAMA Surgery found that 40 percent of participants in a shadowing program expressed interest in pursuing a surgical match, according to a Medpage Today report.
Endocrinologists experienced the largest increase in compensation in 2012, according to the American Medical Group Association's 2013 compensation and financial survey.
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The World Health Organization has released the second edition of its handbook on healthcare waste management, known as "the Blue Book."
Hospitals in St. Louis-based Ascension Health implement infection prevention practices differently, according to a study in the American Journal of Infection Control.
Seventy-one percent of physicians believe that financial incentives would work best with consumers to motivate them to engage in healthy behaviors, according to Deloitte's 2013 Survey of U.S. Physicians.
In a VentureBeat Health News report, Tomer Shoval, co-founder and CEO of medical bill tracking service, Simplee, discusses three reasons why mobile billing and payments in the healthcare industry will grow in 2013.
In a Medscape Today report, Elizabeth Woodcock, founder and principal of Woodcock & Associates, which focuses on medical group operations and revenue cycle management, lays out four benefits that ICD-10 may offer for physicians.