It’s about evenly split when it comes to willingness of consumers to share their health information for research purposes, according to a Truven Health-NPR survey.

Healthcare observers are predicting a wave of merger and acquisition activity in the payer space in 2015, reports Modern Healthcare.

The metropolitan area of Detroit soon will only have one independent hospital left, as Crittenton Hospital Medical Center has announced its intent to join Ascension Health Michigan and Mercy Memorial Hospital System has disclosed plans to join Promedica, a healthcare company serving northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan, reports The Detroit News.  

The readmission rate of super-utilizers, or patients who had four or more admissions during 2012, was nearly six times as high as that for other Medicaid patients, according to a statistical brief from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is hosting a phone call for U.S. providers on Jan. 13 to go over the 2014 submission process for several Medicare quality reporting programs.

CHICAGO--Apervita, Inc. (www.apervita.com), formerly known as Pervasive Health, Inc., the first health analytics marketplace, today announced it has completed an $18 million Series A round of funding.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 19, 2014-- Bina Technologies, Inc. (Bina, Redwood City, CA, USA) announced today that they have been acquired by Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY).

Current rules for setting accountable care organization (ACO) spending targets diminish ACOs’ incentives to generate savings and may even encourage higher Medicare spending, according to a study published in Health Affairs.