Drug-resistant superbugs: CDC urges three-pronged attack to fight HAIs

http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/drug-resistant-superbugs-cdc-urges-three-pronged-attack-fight-hais/2016-03-04?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRons6%2FOde%2FhmjTEU5z14ukkX6a2lMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4DSsdiNK%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7LMKM1ty9MQWxTk

Reports 1 in 7 catheter and surgery-related infections are caused by 1 of 6 bacteria resistant to antibiotics

Obama administration ties 30% of Medicare payments to quality

http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/obama-administration-ties-30-of-medicare-payments-to-quality/415047/

How Common are Abortion Complications? A Crucial Question hits the Supreme Court

How common are abortion complications? A crucial question hits the Supreme Court

Calls for Transparency on Bad Physicians Grow Louder

http://healthleadersmedia.com/content.cfm?topic=PHY&content_id=323611##

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Whether physicians who are on probation should be required to disclose their probationary status to patients is a source of debate that’s getting hotter in California, where a patient advocacy group is testing the boundaries of transparency.

How Specialization Is Making Quality Care More Affordable Across The Globe

http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2016/02/25/how-specialization-is-making-quality-care-more-affordable-across-the-globe/

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Healthgrades Announces America’s Best Hospital for 2016

http://www.healthgrades.com/about/press-room/healthgrades-announces-americas-best-hospitals-for-2016

Healthgrades Best Hospitals

http://www.healthgrades.com/quality/top-hospitals-2016

Five Lessons Healthcare Leaders Are Learning From An Unlikely Source: Nuclear Power

http://www.forbes.com/sites/leahbinder/2016/02/22/five-lessons-healthcare-leaders-are-learning-from-an-unlikely-source-nuclear-power/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Issue:%202016-02-23%20Healthcare%20Dive&utm_term=Healthcare%20Dive#9af7667292a0

Urging Openness About Superbug Infections, Doctor Omits Cases In Own Hospital

http://khn.org/news/urging-openness-about-superbug-infections-doctor-omits-cases-in-own-hospital/

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows the tip of a duodenoscope. U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015 laid out extra safety measures that hospitals can take to clean the specialized medical scopes that have been linked to sometimes deadly bacterial outbreaks across the U.S., but acknowledged that not all hospitals have the staff, expertise and resources to take the steps, including sterilizing scopes with toxic gas to kill bacteria. (U.S. Food and Drug Administration via AP)

Hospitals don’t realize the more transparent they are, the more infection risks would decrease.

Lawrence Muscarella

IBM Watson to acquire Truven Health Analytics for $2.6B

http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/ibm-watson-to-acquire-truven-health-analytics-for-26b/414133/

IBM will double in size following the acquisition