One of the major shareholders in home health and hospice operator Kindred Healthcare has come out in opposition to its proposed sale to health insurer Humana and two private equity firms, arguing the proposed deal undervalues Kindred and there should be “no urgency to sell the company.”

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According to a study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, measuring adherence to technology in electronic health (eHealth) evaluations is an underdeveloped and improperly applied concept.

Tenet Healthcare announced it’s looking to sell its business services subsidiary, Conifer Health Solutions, and will aim to cut an additional $100 million in costs by the end of 2018.

Researchers from Intermountain Healthcare have developed a clinical decision support application capable of identifying when heart failure advances and is capable of notifying physicians. Findings were published in the Journal of Cardiac Failure.

Health insurer Humana and two private equity firms have announced a $4 billion acquisition of the largest home health and hospice operator in the U.S., Kindred Healthcare, splitting the company into two units and expanding Humana’s reach into patient care.

In a letter to state Medicaid directors, CMS said it will no longer accept Medicaid waiver proposals that ask for federal funding for Designated State Health Programs (DSHPs), saying states aren’t contributing their own funds toward efforts to make delivery system changes and have used the waivers to draw down additional federal dollars for Medicaid.

Continuing a flurry of big mergers and acquisitions around healthcare as 2017 winds down, health insurer Humana is reportedly in “advanced talks” to buy Kindred Healthcare with help from two private equity firms.