In an effort to share more and better information with these savvy and engaged consumers, UPMC is the first health care provider in Pennsylvania to publicly share patient satisfaction ratings and comments about its doctors and advanced practice providers.

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Hartford Healthcare are the most recent hospitals to find “superbugs” on medical devices known as duodenoscopes, NBC News reports.

A new study found hospital productivity increased significantly from 2002 to 2011, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Patients discharged from higher-quality hospitals or who received care in higher-quality nursing homes are less likely to be readmitted to a hospital within 30 days, according to a study published in AMJC Managed Markets Network.

The Institute of Medicine has released four recommendations urging significant changes in how clinical trial data are shared, reports Modern Healthcare.  

More public reporting on quality could help bring down hospital costs, according to a new Health Affairs study, reports Modern Healthcare.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released additional quality data to give patients and their families more information to inform their selection of a provider, according to an agency blog.

Independent and objective data on physician performance are only available for 15 percent of U.S. docs, according to non-profit Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute.