Quality and Safety
India's largest drug manufacturer, Ranbaxy Laboratories and its U.S. subsidiary, Ranbaxy Inc., and the U.S. Justice Department, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration have reached an agreement over allegations that the company was selling potentially unsafe drugs in the United States.
The Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is offering $14 million in grants to support research to build a scientific evidence base for effective public reporting.
HealthGrades, a provider of consumer healthcare information, today released a list of America's top cities for hospital care.
The Ohio Department of Public Health and the year-old Governor's Office of Health Transformation (OHT) announced Wednesday that the state will invest $1 million to help primary care practices transition to a patient-centered medical home model.
For the last five months, members of an independent organization established by the Affordable Care Act have been developing a national priorities agenda that may transform medical care and save healthcare dollars. The first draft of that agenda will become available for public comment beginning Monday.
Most of the Medicare fee-for-service demonstration projects launched in the past two decades using disease management and value-based payments have failed to reduce costs, says a report issued yesterday by the Congressional Budget Office.
As healthcare business models evolve more quickly than ever to keep pace with sweeping reforms and emerging competitors, CEOs who support their hospitals' marketing goals are in the best position to gain a competitive edge, says brand strategy firm Smith & Jones.
A new survey by Children's Hospital Boston shows that neurologically impaired children, though still a relatively small part of the overall population, account for increasing hospital resources, particularly within children's hospitals.
The top healthcare systems in the United States have lower 30-day mortality rates finds Thomson Reuters' fourth annual study naming the top 15 health systems in the country.
Once an experimental procedure for severely obese people, gastric banding has become more common, driving gastrointestinal device sales to $14.6 billion, according to a recent report from healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information.