Baystate Health has been working toward data liquidity and liberation as a critical pathway to successful population health management, said Joel Vengco, vice president and CIO, speaking during a webinar presented by the Institute for Health Technology Transformation.

Bipartisan legislation introduced by Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) would increase the transparency of healthcare costs in Medicare.

The Congressional Budget Office projects that major health insurance coverage provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will cost taxpayers more than $1.2 billion from 2016 to 2025.

The Mayo Clinic’s operating income was a record $834 million in 2014, bucking the trends of other large hospitals, the Star Tribune reports.

With nearly 5.6 million employees, community hospitals are the second largest source of private sector jobs, according to a new American Hospital Association report.

Safety-net hospitals in several states that did not expand Medicaid still performed well financially last year, Kaiser Health News reports.

Hospital administrative data contain information that may help emergency department (ED) staff identify populations at risk of experiencing a missed diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI).

Individuals seeking hospital ratings are likely to get a wide range of information, depending on the site they use.