Stephanie Bouchard
Eye care company Bausch + Lomb is being purchased by one of Canada's largest pharmaceutical companies, Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, for $8.7 billion the two companies announced on Monday.
In Lessons Learned: Stories from Women in Medical Management (American College of Physician Executives, $25), editor and author Deborah Shlian, a former family practice physician, compiled and edited the stories of two dozen women physicians who hold leadership positions in a variety of healthcare fields. She spoke to Healthcare Finance News about her book.
In "Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father -- And How We Can Fix It," author David Goldhill channels his incredulousness over how the healthcare system operates into an open challenge to society and the healthcare industry to examine why the healthcare system is the way it is and how it can be changed. He talked to Healthcare Finance News about his book.
Henry Ford Health System and Beaumont Health System announced Tuesday that after six months of due diligence the two organizations are not going forward with their merger that would have created a $6.4 billion organization.
The tornado that devastated Moore, Oklahoma Monday has also wrecked the community's hospital - Moore Medical Center.
A new survey finds that the country's primary care physicians generated more revenue for their affiliated hospitals than did the hospitals' specialists.
A new report examining the state of the skilled nursing industry finds that there have been steady quality improvements since 2003 but more can be done.
The healthcare industry is on notice: Fraud recoveries in the healthcare sector are on the rise and whistle-blowers are the biggest weapon in the fight against fraud.
Collaborations between primary care and behavioral health providers are not new but the leaders of two such organizations believe their newly formed joint venture is a winning formula.
A dominating theme in healthcare today is collaboration and partnership across all sectors of the industry in order to create a continuum of care. For the continuum of care to happen, partnerships must be struck between healthcare entities that haven't necessarily worked much together in the past. An early April webinar addressed how such partnerships can be successfully formed.