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A workforce that is never overworked and never underutilized is the grail of healthcare leadership. With time-poor or disengaged staff, mistakes caused by a communication breakdown or administrative errors – new procedures being ignored or vacations not being covered –...

As part of Northside Hospital’s transformation of its Supply Chain and Procurement operations, Northside Hospital (Northside) engaged Accenture to identify potential savings across certain indirect spend categories—telecommunications and energy. Accenture leveraged the unique assets of its Procurement Services division...

During the past three decades, investment, innovation and advances in new technologies and procedures have markedly improved our ability to detect and diagnose early stage breast cancer and have had an enormous positive impact on patients. However, improvements in...

ASCs, or Ambulatory Surgery Centers, have been playing a significant role in access to surgical care across the United States. For the most part, ASCs have been developed in major metropolitan areas and are developed by ASC management companies,...

People who have astigmatism are advised by the opticians to wear toric contact lenses, as they are mainly designed to correct the refractive error caused by the irregularly shaped cornea. Most often, people without even visiting their eye doctor...

Medical devices help patients manage chronic illnesses, allow providers to monitor progress remotely and much more. Like many other products, they also go through changes to meet new requirements or match identified needs in the marketplace. Sometimes, there are...

In a five-stage process, a 120-Watt laser with MOSES technology helps eliminate nearly every remnant, while saving time and enhancing outcomes for the larger renal stones 1.5cm to 3.5cm in size, partial staghorn stones and low-volume complete staghorn stones. The...