A board member of UNC Health Care has alleged the health system may have acted illegally by conducting closed-door negotiations on a proposed merger with Carolinas HealthCare System “for the better part of a year” without informing the board. The board’s leaders responded by saying that member has a conflict of interest and shouldn’t be involved with the deal.

Monday morning saw the announcement of two very expensive acquisitions in the biopharmaceutical industry: France’s Sanofi buying U.S. hemophilia drugmaker Bioverativ and Celgene spending $9 billion to buy the remaining 90 percent of cancer immunotherapy specialist Juno Therapeutics.

Paternalistic practice within the patient-provider relationship could be explain low patient participation in electronic health (eHealth) services, such as patient-accessible electronic health records (EHRs). Findings were published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Care New England, the second-largest hospital system in Rhode Island, has been in negotiations since last April for a sale to Boston-based Partners HealthCare. Now it has some new potential suitors: Brown University and Prospect Medical Holdings.

General Electric (GE) has experienced a lot of change in recent years, but a much bigger transformation could be on the horizon as a new report indicates the company is considering breaking itself apart.

An emergency department (ED)-based transitional care nurse (TCN) program, focusing on geriatric care, was able to reduce the number of unnecessary hospitalizations by 33 percent. Findings were published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Gary, Indiana-based Methodist Hospitals and Mishawaka, Indiana-based Franciscan Alliance have decided not to merge 10 months after announcing a potential union.

The Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) will have 561 accountable care organizations (ACOs) participating in 2018, including 124 new entrants into the program, covering a total of 10.5 million assigned beneficiaries, according to CMS.