Richard Pizzi

The University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore and Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle have been named "Top Hospitals of the Decade" by The Leapfrog Group.

Thomson Reuters has acquired GeneGo, a provider of biology and disease information, analytics and decision support services for pharmaceutical research and development.

Online advertised vacancies for healthcare practitioners, technical occupations and support personnel increased significantly in October.

Diabetes care for Native Americans is significantly underfunded, although that population has the highest per capita incidence of diabetes in the United States.

Fitch Ratings has downgraded the credit rating on more than $200 million in revenue bonds issued on behalf of the Nebraska Methodist Health System, a three-hospital system based in Omaha, Neb.

The average per capita cost of healthcare services covered by commercial insurance and Medicare rose 7.08 percent over the past 12 months, according to data released this week by Standard & Poor's.

Moody's Investor's Service predicts that the outlook for the global pharmaceutical industry remains negative, primarily due to the sector's increasing exposure to major patent expirations.

The Institute of Medicine Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Care opened its first meeting Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

The California HealthCare Foundation has launched a $10 million investment fund focusing on nonprofit organizations and for-profit companies with innovative services and devices that might significantly reduce costs and improve access to care in California.

Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Health Plan last week reported a combined total operating revenue of $11.1 billion for the third quarter of 2010, compared to $10.5 billion in the same period in 2009.