OR Excellence heads to the Big Easy! Join us next year for jazz, jambalaya and jaunts down Bourbon Street.

In court, the medical record is the care rendered. How to survive a medical malpractice suit.

Should you add robotics, femtosecond laser cataract surgery and spine? Adding new technology and procedures, what you should look for.

Enforce screening guidelines to keep the surgical schedule on track. Start every case on time.

Generating momentum is key to achieving life's goals.

Psychiatrist Kent Neff, MD, explains how to face off with a good surgeon gone bad. Learn how to defuse disruptive doctors.

You're likely in harm's way if you're billing and collecting for your anesthesia providers. Can facilities really profit from anesthesia services?

Pay attention to OR Ergonomics. Laparoscopic surgery can be a nightmare for surgeons.

Moving cases along is the biggest key to growing the bottom line. Make your ortho center sing with efficiency.

It's time to start collecting patients' pre-op information online. Use technology to rev up pre-admissions.

Knowing when to operate is knowing when not to operate. Are you pushing the patient safetyenvelope?

Never stop striving to improve patient throughput and room turnovers. Are your Ors truly efficient?

You can make 'never events' a reality with renewed focus and attention are what's needed.

Price transparency's biggest proponent, Keith Smith, MD, shared his radical plan to revolutionize the healthcare system.

Surgery's best were honored during a celebratory luncheon for OR Excellence Award winners.

Thinking of buying a smoke evacuation system? View some of the smoke evacuation systems available.

Fill your ORs with the latest crystal clear imaging technologies.

Keep surgeon's cases coming to your facility by providing lunch to surgeons. An Idea that works from a surgery center in Florida.

Stay on top of the great paper chase and conquer physician credentialing with these strategies.

Several advances provide physicians with better views of more areas of the colon. Read about 5 colonoscopy game-changers.