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New MainStream Capital and MBF Healthcare Partners have announced the merger of Tennessee-based SunCrest Healthcare and Florida-based OMNI Home Care, creating one of the largest post-acute care providers of home health services in the southeastern United States.
MedAssets, based in Atlanta, has announced that the Kettering Health Network, a Dayton, Ohio-based health network comprised of seven hospitals and more than 60 healthcare facilities, has selected key components of the company's Spend and Clinical Resource Management solutions to help optimize overall financial performance.
A study released earlier this month in the Archives of Internal Medicine finds that medical professionals are concerned about bias from commercial funding of continuing medical education – but they aren't willing to pay more money for CME if commercial funding is curtailed or eliminated.
The healthcare sector added more than 37,000 jobs in April and has added 295,000 jobs since April 2010 according to new employment data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The Hospitalists Management Group and Cogent Healthcare have closed on a deal, announced in April, that merges the two companies. This combination forms the largest private hospitalist company in the United States.
American Well, a Boston-based developer of telehealth programs for health plans and large providers, is setting its sights on physician practices.
Many vendors give short shrift to the usability of their electronic medical records, says Jiajie Zhang, who is devoting the next three-plus years to addressing this usability factor.
Highmark Inc. recently announced it would launch a two-year, patient-centered medical home pilot project.
A landmark New York hospital that closed more than a year ago is being saved from bankruptcy through an innovative development deal.
While the Steward Health Care System may have run into a wall in its efforts to acquire a troubled Miami hospital, two more acquisitions closer to home are heading to fruition, extending the for-profit chain’s reach in its home state of Massachusetts.