Take advantage of healthcare transparency. Expert insights on putting quality measures and outside opinions to work for your facility.

Cutting Remarks: Tall tales from the OR. If you stick around surgery long enough, you'll see it all.

Free On-Site Daycare, this Idea That Works can help your employees.

Staffing: Manning the fort effectively. Your front desk staff are the faces of your facility.

Legal update: Give Disruptive Docs the Boot - Outpatient Surgery Magaz

5 steps to safer sharps handling. These precautions limit risks of sticks and cuts.

Elimnate clear liquid mix ups with this Idea That Works.

Olympus issues new duodenoscope reprocessing instructions. New guidelines focus on problematic elevator channel.

Weather or not. Does severe weather ever scrub your surgical schedule?

Dentist accused of leaving sedated kids alone. One wandered in the waiting room; the other called his mother.

244 ASCs will be part of Tenet-USPI joint venture. The Tenet-USPI joint venture will be the largest provider of ambulatory surgery in the United States.

Ready for a robot? New technology is improving robotic surgery -- although questions still linger about its use.

Let UV light shine. Small but mighty superbug-zapping robots that decontaminate the surfaces you missed are the newest craze in infection prevention.

The evolution of EMRs. Electronic documentation systems continue to imp-rove, offering advantages inside and outside the OR.

The promise of phaco-less cataract surgery. Femtosecond lasers continue to revolutionize the procedure's potential.

A black box in every OR. Surgery can take a lesson from aviation, says the surgeon who invented a device that records every step of surgery.

Seeing is believing. Brilliant high-def monitors and stunning 3D images are revolutionizing surgical video's eye-popping potential.

The very real benefits of real-time imaging. Working with constantly updated pictures of anatomy allows for safer, more efficient surgery.

Colon cancer doesn't stand a chance. Improved optics and mechanical innovations are revolutionizing colonoscopy screenings.

The melding of health care and technology is inevitable. Q&A with Rafael Grossmann, MD, FACS, healthcare futurist and Google Glass Explorer.