Not long ago a Benefis Health System volunteer was visiting a friend in the hospital where she volunteers. “The patient told her visitor a member of the housekeeping staff was adjusting her oxygen,” ...

Z codes, which are ICD-10-CM codes used to identify non-medical factors that may affect a patient’s health status, are a useful way to track social determinants of health and capture standardized data ...

The new rule is designed to jump start the nationwide adoption of bar-coding in hospitals and to eventually move drug makers and hospitals to a system where most patients will receive their drugs in a ...