Thomson Reuters released its 100 Top Hospitals report April 16, using "objective research and independent public data to recognize the best U.S. hospitals."

Now that 27 Medicare Shared Savings Program participants have been announced, bloggers for Health Affairs examined the state of accountable care organizations (ACOs). Turns out, the fun is just getting started.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), along with five Congressional colleagues, has sent a letter to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the FDA imploring the agencies to clarify who oversees each agencys policy development (including regulations, guidance, etc.) for wireless health devices and their supporting infrastructure, as well as how the policy measures are coordinated among the agencies and the ONC.

Assigning a numerical value to an outcome can objectify the healthcare processes and lead to a clearer understanding of how and when high-quality care is provided, according to an article published in the March/April edition of Physician Executive Journal of Medical Management.

With an eye on sharing the most important patient safety lessons with the public as well as its members, the ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization has come out with a new version of its adverse-event collection and reporting system.

When it comes to cholesterol levels, motherland mattersor more precisely, factors related to the economy and healthcare systems of a nation matter, according to the results of a paper published online April 9 in Circulation. The study examined the relationship between country-level factors and elevated cholesterol rates in patients with a history of hyperlipidemia.

Alabama Power, an electricity company, is partnering with 27 hospitals across the state and Birmingham-based healthcare technology company Proventix Systems to help reduce healthcare-associated infections.

Electronic patient record (EPR) buying and selling energy outside of North America is still developing for most countries, with a majority of activity in Asia, the Middle East, and the U.K, according to a report from market researcher KLAS.