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All healthcare subsectors -- services, IT, medical devices and life sciences -- are benefiting from open equity and demand for products and services.

Frugal spending and an academic approach to planning helps Hill Country Memorial earn high honors.

The reason costs add up for these procedures could have more to do with doctors than patients, JAMA report finds.

When healthcare leaders do not clearly set direction, define performance expectations, create a patient focus and demonstrate clear and visible practice values and ethics, physicians and other employees are likely to invent their own ideas as to what needs to be done and how to accomplish it.

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Leaders, providers and vendors shared top insights into healthcare news on Twitter.

Cardiac surgeon David Torchiana tapped to replace outgoing leader Gary Gottlieb.

Lower revenue makes tracking costs even more important for these smaller healthcare facilities.

John Mackey also suggests weight loss and nutrition camps for employees and customers, marketed as a weekend retreats.

The way hospitals create their annual budgets could be changing amid reforms, as some are beginning to see the benefits of leaning on business intelligence during the process.