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Along with announcing increases in revenue, Medtronic, Inc., a medical technology company based in Minneapolis, said Tuesday that it will be restructuring its business and reducing its workforce by 4 to 5 percent.

The single stand-alone hospital may be a "concept of the past" according to an expert on hospital mergers and acquisitions who spoke at the HIMSS11 conference in Orlando, Fla., on Monday.

Roosevelt Hairston, Jr., the executive vice president and general counsel for Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, has been fired, according to a statement made last week by hospital officials.

Concentra, a subsidiary of Humana, Inc., has acquired the assets of New Jersey-based Immediate Medical Care Center, P.A. (IMCC), a provider of urgent care and occupational health services to the private patient and employer community.

LifePoint Hospitals saw an increase in its continuing operations revenues for both the fourth quarter and year ending Dec. 31, 2010.

Healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente has announced that its combined total operating revenue for 2010 was $44.2 billion, up from $42.1 billion last year. Operating income was $1.2 billion, down from $1.6 billion in 2009 and net non-operating income was $789 million, compared to $524 million last year.

Radiology practices are currently in a climate of increasing competition that requires self-analysis and more in-depth views of market trends that can be compared to their own business models.

Providers face ‘severe’ repercussions for not getting transition right

Document management eases transition to an EMR

Workforce management giant adds web-ready HR solutions