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JPMorgan Chase has acquired InstaMed, a technology company with a focus in healthcare payments, for a purchase price of more than $500 million.

Avoidable hospital deaths are on the decline, according to recent estimates from the Leapfrog Group for Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

The American Hospital Association has outlined a seven-step approach specifically tailored to health system leaders to address burnout in healthcare.

A natural language processing algorithm has achieved 90% precision in automatically spotting signs of social isolation in cancer patients by “reading” clinical notes in a hospital’s electronic health record.

A San Jose-based company focused on machine learning for care optimization, Health[at]Scale, has raised $16 million in a Series A funding round, with Optum as its sole investor.

CMS finalized a rule that aims to boost transparency of the cost of prescription drugs in Medicare Part D and enable Medicare Advantage plans to negotiate better prices for medicines. Notably, the final version backs off a controversial proposal that would have allowed Medicare Part D plans to exclude certain drugs if prices rise beyond a threshold.