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.

Initiatives to improve care should focus on all care settings rather than just one site, according to a report by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Aligning Forces for Quality initiative.

Many hospitals, health systems and physician groups across the country are pursuing accountable care organizations — as of January 2013, there were 428 total ACOs in every state except Delaware. However, the success of these organizations has yet to be…

Two congressmen have reintroduced a bill that would create pilot projects to test community-based primary care training models, according to an AAFP News Now report.