To help create clinical trials, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, pediatric hospital Columbus, Ohio, has signed an agreement to join TriNetX, a software company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is holding a competition to develop technology for wearable devices to measure blood-alcohol levels in real time. The first-place prototype winners will be awarded $200,000, with $100,000 going to second place.

Weimar Medical Center (WMC) in Texas has been closed since Nov. 26 when it didn’t have enough money to pay its employees. Several weeks later, workers are still waiting on checks.

Moody’s Investor Service projects nonprofit hospitals and health systems will remain stable in 2017, despite uncertainty caused by the results of the presidential and congressional elections.

Biotech stocks fell nearly 5 percent Dec. 7, after Time magazine published an interview with President-elect Donald Trump's interview with Time magazine, in which he vowed to take action to control drug prices.

If Republicans in Congress move forward with plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) without a replacement ready, hospitals could lose hundreds of billions of dollars.

The antitrust trial on Aetna’s proposed $37 billion acquisition of Humana began Dec. 5, with the U.S. Department of Justice beginning to make its case that the merger would reduce competition and raise prices for patients and hospitals.

The Microsoft Xbox Kinect isn't just for video games. TrainerMD, producers of HIPAA-compliant software for patients and clinicians, has paired with Styku, a software and Microsoft Accelerator company, to utilize the machine as a 3D body scanner.