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Each year, hospital-acquired infections cost billions of dollars, with the five most common types adding up to $9.8 billion each year, according to The Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy data.

Diabetes became one of the costliest and fastest growing issues in the United States, after it topped a list of the nation's costliest chronic conditions, The Sacramento Bee reports.

Annie McKee, PhD, a senior fellow at the Pittsburgh-based University of Pennsylvania and the director of the university's PennCLO Executive Doctoral Program, interviewed 35 CMOs and compiled their responses into five strategies for coping with stress, according to an American…

Hospitals and health IT companies spanning the nation saved 69,519 lives in 2016, The Patient Safety Movement Foundation announced at the 5th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit in Dana Point, Calif., Yahoo! Finance reports.

British Medical Journal published a study finding Medicare patients who obtained care from physicians who were trained outside the United States had lower 30-day mortality rates than those patients cared for by U.S.-trained physicians, according to Medscape.

A Markets and Markets report found the surgical/operating microscopes market is likely to experience significant growth from 2016 through 2021, Yahoo! Finance reports.

As payers and providers ponder a value-based future, Health Payer Intelligence compiled four things payers can do to help improve patient outcomes.

President Donald Trump met with drug company executives on Jan. 31, 2017, to discuss the state of the pharmaceutical industry and spiraling drug prices, according to The Hill.

Here are three notes of GI/endoscopy companies for healthcare leaders to note.

Officials require healthcare employees to get their flu shots as a way to lower patient risk. However, PLOS One published a study that challenges a flu shot's efficacy in mitigating such risk, STAT reports.