America's Best Hospitals
Best Hospitals methodology; how we identified more than 100 most connected hospitals.
Medicine is entering a new era of information technology.
U.S. News rankings highlight the Best Hospitals in metro areas with 500,000 or more residents.
How we selected the 140 out of 4,825 U.S. hospitals that ranked in one or more of our 16 specialties.
For clinical excellence, these 17 hospitals possess a rare blend of breadth and depth.
The glossary explains the meaning of the terms that appear on the rankings pages.
U.S. News offers hospital rankings for almost 100 of America's largest metropolitan areas.
These 118 hospitals met twin standards of solid medicine and early adoption of information technology.
To make the list, hospitals had be clinically high-performing and advanced in implementing EMRs.
For the first time, U.S. News has ranked hospitals in America's 52 largest metropolitan areas.
