CMS has announced that, due to "required infrastructure system upgrades," the October update to its Hospital Compare website will be limited to two data points: Medicare Spending per Beneficiary and aggregate payment information.

Hospitals in 27 states have alerted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of 68 possible Ebola patients in the last three weeks, according to an ABC News report.

Declining memory and cognitive ability may increase the risk of stroke in adults over age 65, according to research published in the American Heart Association journal Stroke.

  The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute is offering up to $90 million in support for studies that address practical comparative questions faced by patients, clinicians and other healthcare decision makers.

A free fatty acid, made up of compounds similar to those naturally made in the body, may be as effective at fighting catheter-related bloodstream infections as antibiotics, according to a study published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.

New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System and Crystal Run Healthcare, a multispecialty group practice based in Rock Hill, N.Y., have created an alliance to achieve the triple aim of better care, better health and lower costs.

If you've never Googled a healthcare service, you may want to consider your life — or your community — fairly comfortable. That's what some findings from the The New York Times suggest, anyhow. Back in June, the newspaper identified American…

Hospital workers who use antibacterial soap containing triclosan, a synthetic antibacterial agent, on the job are exposed to potentially unsafe levels of the chemical, which is currently under review by the Food and Drug Administration, according to a study led…

DebMed has opened participation in its annual survey on hand hygiene compliance to patient safety and quality or infection prevention specialists and other healthcare professionals.

A patient at Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento (Calif.) Medical Center may have been exposed to Ebola, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is testing the patient's blood for the virus.