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Industry, government join health care field to tackle obesity, diabetes and antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

New and emerging treatment plans are abandoning long-held ideas and becoming much more targeted to diabetes patients' individual needs. But a personalized approach could make quality measurement and pay-for-performance more complicated, and they will need to change, too.

Last spring, the New England Journal of Medicine published results from a cutting-edge study on preventing health care-acquired infections. It is the type of study that we may look back on one day and say, "That's when things changed."

The AHA's Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence strategic platform offers tools and resources to assist health care organizations navigate our rapidly changing field and work to transform care, beginning at the local level.

Managing patients with diabetes or other chronic diseases is suddenly a major focus for hospitals. They're working with insurers to develop fair, effective reimbursement models.

Readers, it's your turn.

Diabetes, by the numbers.

Traditional approaches to controlling these conditions aren't that effective.

Smart leaders, smart staff, smart IT — and Medicare penalties that could smart — put the spotlight on 'the Rodney Dangerfield of diseases.'

Online rating services are proliferating in health care