Jeff Lagasse

Physician leaders have voted to adopt a modernized Code of Medical Ethics during the American Medical Association's annual meeting, capping an eight-year project to modernize the code's ethical guidance for relevance, clarity and consistency, the AMA said.

Doctors responding to the survey are worried they will not have the technology, capital or staffing to survive.

Walgreens on Sunday formally cut ties with blood-testing startup Theranos and will immediately close all 40 Theranos Wellness Centers at its stores in Arizona.

Fewer than one-quarter of hospitals in the United States are on track to hit the Obama administration's 2018 goal of providing at least half of their patient care through value-based arrangements -- structures that tie reimbursement from Medicare to the quality of care patients receive.

Twenty percent of reporting hospitals lack a policy that conforms to all of the criteria in the Leapfrog group's standard for preventable hospital errors dubbed "never events" the nonprofit agency has found in a newly released report.

Mercyhealth broke ground earlier this week on a large, $485 million expansion project that will yield a new specialty women's and children's hospital and multispecialty clinic building in Rockford, Illinois. Both facilities are scheduled for completion in early 2019.

Medical University of South Carolina has chosen Avantas to deliver system-wide workforce planning services that include predictive analytics, scheduling software and centralized resource management. MUSC Health expects this will optimize the health system's core and contingent labor, the companies announced on Wednesday.

While reforms tied to the Affordable Care Act have most healthcare providers focusing on quality and efficiency, financial experts say the dramatic change in business model is driving improvement in credit ratings.

Mercy Health in Cincinnati has announced that Fairfield Hospital is undergoing a $14 million renovation to enhance patient care in surgery and inpatient and outpatient endoscopy.

Workforce management and staffing company AMN Healthcare has acquired Peak Health Solutions, a health information management services company that provides remote medical coding and consulting to hospitals and physician medical groups.