Hopefully, not many healthcare organizations will need to use it, but there’s now an ICD-10 code for treating patients with coronavirus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC's) ...

Decision-making in large institutions often starts at the highest levels and is then passed down through the levels to employees. Geisinger’s recent implementation of a dress code for nurses and other ...

In what is already a highly regulated industry, it is becoming increasingly difficult for healthcare organizations to navigate the growing volume, complexity and enforcement of laws, regulations and ...

Georgetown University’s School of Nursing (SON) explored the key changes designed to support nurses and patients in the changing healthcare systems in the newly revised 2025 Code of Ethics for Nurses, ...

HOUSTON – The processes of coding and charge capture are often complicated, time-consuming, paper-intensive tasks more suited to administrators than clinicians. To make those tasks easier for everyone ...

Nurses and physician assistants are an integral part of a successful electronic health record implementation, according to EHR Intelligence. A 2008 EHR adoption survey found practices had an 83 ...

A survey of patients regarding their perception of professionalism conveyed by the appearance of nurses resulted in the creation of a new dress code for nurses at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, ...

While most policy changes come from the top down, Geisinger Health System's new dress code for nurses came from an unusual source: patients. In a recent article published in the Online Journal of ...

Research suggesting nurse anesthetist standalone care is equivalent to physician-led care is flawed, according to a new study published online in Anesthesia & Analgesia. 1. According to study results, ...