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The proposed regulations include a section on electronic health records and measures to better ensure that patients or their families are involved in care planning and in the discharge process.

Though many hospitals are trying their best to become more transparent, one in five hospitals will not commit to a policy to combat events that should never happen in a hospital, group says.

Hospital systems and other nonprofit healthcare institutions could soon find themselves losing long-held tax exemptions, as another major health system, New Jersey's Atlantic Health System, has lost its legal fight to avoid paying property taxes.

If the $37 billion cash-and-stock deal is approved as a whole by regulators, Humana will bring Aetna's membership to more than 33 million.

According to tax and advisory firm KPMG, 74 percent of healthcare providers say they are either in the beginning stages or have not even begun to invest is systems for analytics and financial reporting.

Ian Morrison tells insiders at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's 2015 Annual National Institute that U.S. systems have to reconcile costs to improve value.

The best method to attract and keep consumers is to build access to points of care throughout the organization, from a hospital's retail clinic to physician offices, primary care and medical specialists, experts at HFMA 2015 ANI say.

According to iVantage, these hospitals excel at managing risk, achieving high quality, outcomes and patient satisfaction while running on lower reimbursements and charges than their peers.

But spending on community programs still a small slice of the tax savings these health systems receive.

Amid increasing financial challenges, Parkview could no longer survive as a stand-alone hospital.