The proliferation of hospital ratings and rankings may cause more confusion than transparency, according to a Kaiser Health News report.

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America recommended the U.S. House of Representatives' Appropriations Subcommittee invest $743.7 million in infection prevention in fiscal year 2014.

A free validation toolkit for central-line associated bloodstream infection data reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Healthcare Safety Network is available from CDC.

The number of articles, whitepapers and reports being generated about accountable care organizations is increasing exponentially, with the vast majority covering the nuts and bolts of creating an ACO and exploring various payment strategies. These are all important issues to…

Raleigh, N.C.-based Rex Healthcare has formed a new neurosurgery practice in partnership with three neurosurgeons to expand neurosurgical care offered by the health system.

A study, published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, has found that the gender of a healthcare provider does not have any significant effect on healthcare costs or mortality.

President Obama has signed into law the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013, according to an AHA News Now report.

Public hospitals and hospitals without The Joint Commission accreditation had lower performance scores on four emergency department-related measures under the Hospital Inpatient Value-Based Purchasing Program compared with other hospitals, according to a study in Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Readmission data from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program is more accurate than administrative data on readmissions, according to a study in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

The global infection control market is predicted to grow to $14 billion by 2017, according to a MarketsandMarkets report.