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The Texas hospital that wrongfully discharged now deceased Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan is already experiencing financial repercussions from the clinical slip-ups associated with the deadly virus.

Two major healthcare organizations in eastern Massachusetts are joining to build a new health system, creating what they term a "unique model" intended to improve care coordination and enhance the affordability of care.

Medical Properties Trust has signed a deal to acquire and lease back substantially all of the real estate assets of privately-held MEDIAN Kliniken Group, the largest private provider of post-acute and acute rehabilitation services in Germany.

Rising interest rates and regulatory oversight will be the top challenges confronting the senior care industry over the next year, according to a new survey of housing and care providers. But industry leaders feel good about a stronger business performance outlook.

As healthcare's trade winds blow towards more consolidation, some nonprofit health systems are taking a new business turn, while trying to continue traditional charitable missions.

Among a variety of high risk, high reward investments for health systems, robotic surgery is emerging as a technology with lots of promise as well as conflicting evidence.

The "consumerization" of healthcare is helping to shape trends in healthcare real estate by contributing to significantly less hospital usage in certain regions of the United States.

The country's medical colleges saw an increase in fundraising last year. They also saw an increase in fundraising costs.

Venture capital money is pouring into mHealth technologies, and much of that funding is going to support technology that benefits providers.

As risks in healthcare get more significant and complex, vigilant monitoring must be a highly deliberate process requiring oversight by a cross-functional team within a hospital.