Hospital operator HCA Holdings, Inc., of Nashville, Tennessee, did not see a major effect from the rollout of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) individual mandate in its first quarter financials and missed revenue expectations by $70 million.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is taking on the problem of diagnosis errors in healthcare and has issued eight recommendations for how these types of medical errors could be reduced through policy and healthcare system changes.

Lack of basic scientific knowledge about some disease processes, costs and risks of FDA approval, limited rewards for medical products that could lower spending, treatment creep and the medical arms race all tend to increase healthcare spending without conferring major health benefits, according to a recent report.

Federal mandates, mobile health, patient engagement, privacy and security were top issues.

The first quarter earnings from the Brentwood, Tennessee-based rural hospital operator LifePoint exceeded previous earning estimates by $70 million and set its stock surging, as well as the stocks of other hospital operators.

Preliminary analysis by Moody’s Investor Services of fiscal year 2013 audited financial statements for not-for-profit hospitals indicates that, as expected, revenue increases did not keep pace with increases in expenses even as hospitals focused on cost containment.

The Florida House of Representatives has passed by a margin of 100 to 19 a bill to increase the number of physician assistants (PAs) a single physician may supervise from four to eight. The Florida Senate will consider the bill next.

The need for analytics is growing as healthcare organizations move from volume to value-based care. As a result, vendors are rushing to the market with a wave of new products, including more targeted solutions, according to a report from KLAS, a Utah-based research firm.