Blue Shield of California may end coverage with the Sutter Health network of doctors and hospitals, which would leave about 280,000 consumers in northern and central California searching for another place to receive care, reports SFGATE.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14, 2015 -- Practice Fusion, the #1 cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) for doctors and patients, announced the results of a recent collaboration with Merck & Co. Inc. 

Access to medical records still is proving costly for patients, reports Clinical Innovation + Technology.

The Obama administration has approved new rules to dissuade nonprofit hospitals from aggressively collecting payments from low-income patients, reports The New York Times.  

Healthcare observers are predicting a wave of merger and acquisition activity in the payer space in 2015, reports Modern Healthcare.

The metropolitan area of Detroit soon will only have one independent hospital left, as Crittenton Hospital Medical Center has announced its intent to join Ascension Health Michigan and Mercy Memorial Hospital System has disclosed plans to join Promedica, a healthcare company serving northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan, reports The Detroit News.  

CHICAGO--Apervita, Inc. (www.apervita.com), formerly known as Pervasive Health, Inc., the first health analytics marketplace, today announced it has completed an $18 million Series A round of funding.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 19, 2014-- Bina Technologies, Inc. (Bina, Redwood City, CA, USA) announced today that they have been acquired by Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY).