Capital Finance
Healthcare reform is fundamentally changing the way hospitals are run. A combination of crushing costs, government edicts and fierce competition for the millions of newly insured patients that will result from federal healthcare legislation is putting the patient front and center.
Most folks think of care services when they think of hospices, but one enterprising hospice in Las Vegas is expanding its business model by venturing into mobile technology.
The number of mergers and acquisitions in the medical device sector has been steady over the past three and a half years, according to research and publishing firm Irving Levin Associates' new report The Medical Device Acquisition Report, Second Edition, 2012.
Talks between West Penn Allegheny Health System and Highmark resumed Monday just a couple of days after a judge ruled last week that Highmark had not breached the $475 million merger deal, effectively barring West Penn from negotiating a new deal with other companies.
During the keynote address at the KronosWorks 2012 conference in Las Vegas on Monday, Billy Beane, general manager of Major League Baseball's Oakland Athletics, explained to an audience of workforce management professionals how using analytics for hiring new employees is key for business.
Allscripts announced Thursday that its Q3 bookings were down 39 percent. In the wake of its poor performance, CEO Glen Tullman confirmed that the firm is considering "strategic alternatives" for a possible sale of the company.
What are the top three concerns among hospital CEOs? Most people would feel confident saying patient safety and quality was a top concern; however it wasn't selected from among the list of categories.
While major stock indices absorbed their biggest single-day losses of the year Wednesday as investors came to grips with the post-election reality of the fiscal cliff -- amplified by fresh EuroZone worries -- most of the large, publicly-traded insurance stocks absorbed losses far in excess of those of the broader markets.
Capital raised by healthcare real estate investment trusts (HCREITs) continues to outpace other REIT categories, due primarily to investor interest in medical office buildings and senior housing, according to data released recently by financial and professional services firm Jones Lang LaSalle.
Proposals to allow for the sale of health insurance across state lines have long been touted as one way of effectively lowering the price of health insurance, particularly in states where there is a highly concentrated insurance market. The argument goes that resultant increased competition would encourage a state's existing health plans to lower prices in the face of the new market entrants.