Rene Letourneau
Ascension Health and Alexian Brothers Health System announced Wednesday that the two will merge as of Jan. 1, 2012.
As drug shortages become more frequent and severe, providers are feeling the financial impact of the higher-priced alternatives and the personnel hours required to deal with the escalating problem.
The American Medical Association (AMA) last week released two new trend reports in its Policy Research Perspective series illustrating the high price doctors pay to protect themselves against malpractice suits.
More than one in five Americans were in families with problems paying medical bills in 2010, about the same proportion as in 2007, according to a national study released today by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC).
Thomson Reuters today announced that it has suspended the divestiture process for its healthcare business. The company had revealed plans to sell the division in June.
Pharmaceutical companies outsourced $36.6 billion in global research and development expenses to contract drug developers in 2011, up 6.6 percent from 2009, according to healthcare research firm Kalorama Information.
The proportion of Americans reporting problems affording prescription drugs remained level between 2007 and 2010, with more than one in eight going without a prescribed drug in 2010, according to a national study released today by the Center for Studying Health System Change. Despite the flat numbers, the news isn't necessarily good.
Fujifilm Holdings Corporation announced Wednesday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ultrasound technology firm SonoSite, Inc. for approximately $995 million.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded $218 million Wednesday to 26 hospitals and health systems to reduce the millions of preventable injuries and complications caused by healthcare-acquired conditions each year.
The number of young people entering the nursing profession is surging, providing relief from the recent nursing shortage, according to an article in the December issue of Health Affairs.