The ACDIS Advisory Board provides the association with guidance and feedback and offers industry expertise through authorship of white papers for ACDIS membership and...Read More »
Piperacillin-tazobactam, one of the antibiotics most frequently prescribed in an empirical regiment for sepsis, was associated with a higher mortality rate and increased duration in organ dysfunction compared with cefepime for adults hospitalized with suspected sepsis, according to...Read More »
After 12 years, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) will pay $38 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit which alleged that some of its surgeons were doing unnecessary or overly complex operations to increase earnings and enrich system hospitals.Read More »
Every year, the ACDIS conference provides professionals the opportunity to show the CDI community what they, their team, and their organization have been able to discover and accomplish. Now ACDIS members can view...Read More »
Steward Healthcare, a Dallas-based company that operates more than 30 hospitals nationwide, has filed for financial relief under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the Southern District of Texas, according to ...Read More »
The Medicare Board of Trustees has released its annual report on the status of the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund—the institution responsible for funding Medicare. According to the fact sheet, the Board of Trustees found that the “Social...Read More »
A new report issued by the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute suggests that, despite a 45.5% increase in patient services, physician reimbursement has...Read More »