The U.S. government spends more money on healthcare than any other nation in the world, including countries with universal healthcare programs such as Canada and the U.K., according to a study published online Jan. 21 in the American Journal of Public Health.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has reintroduced its eCQI Resource Center, which serves as a one-stop shop for the most current resources to support electronic clinical quality improvement.

Spreemo, a New York-based Healthcare management platform, announced this week it has named Daniel Elgort, PhD, its new vice president of healthcare analytics. 

Expansions, renovations, brand-new facilities—the healthcare construction boom is underway, and providers across the country are getting in on the action.

Since 1980, the average hospital stay in the U.S. has decreased from 7.3 days to 4.5 days, the New York Times reports. Austin Frakt, a health economist, notes discharging patients sooner helps hospitals from a financial perspective.

After announcing its plans to switch to Epic EHR and revenue cycle systems, Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic now plans to sell the IT vendor its 62,000-square-foot data center.

A big sign of just how much impact data analytics is having on healthcare is the announcement that one of the Major League Baseball executives from the "Moneyball"-era has joined the faculty of the Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI). 

With 2016 just days away, various experts at the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) were asked about the immediate future of scientific research. What diseases will we be closer to curing next year? How will science impact treatment?