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.

Hospitals' acquisitions of physician practices will likely result in higher healthcare costs, reduced physician productivity and more fragmented care, according to an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal.

A recent report by Valence Health provides a list of 19 questions health systems should ask as they work to develop accountable care.

Total hospital costs for potentially preventable hospital admissions related to diabetes increased by nearly 12 percent from 2005 to 2010, according to a statistical brief from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and…