Quality and Safety

Staff is operating on emergency plan after virus disables computers and electronic communications.

Analysis suggests hospitals with ratings of 2, 3 or 4 were more than three times as likely to land in top 10 percent in the country.

Programs substantially cut the risk of dying from another cardiac problem, improve quality of life and lower costs; less than one-third of patients whose conditions qualify for the rehab actually participate.

Mylan CEO Heather Bresch calls new option "an extraordinary commercial response" following rising backlash from public, lawmakers on price hike.

"Adverse drug events" drive up health care costs annually by about $3.5 billion, add about three days to the average stay, DHHS says.

Embattled blood testing company Theranos has filed a notice of intent to appeal the sanctions that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has imposed on their Newark, California lab.

Orlando Health and Florida Hospital will waive $5.5 million in costs and continue to help victims with financial assistance for follow-up care.

Geriatric ERs have the potential to lower health care costs as staff can more carefully discern who needs to be admitted and who can be cared for outside of hospital walls. That tends to reduce hospitalizations among the elderly.

Many people don't know about sepsis. Meanwhile, health care providers struggle to identify it early.

As data theft, ransomware, network attacks and accidental privacy violations continue to plague healthcare organizations of all sizes, HHS Office for Civil Rights has announced plans to devote more resources to investigating smaller breaches.