A definitive agreement may be signed as early as September. The potential affiliation would make Banner Health Arizona’s largest private employer with a combined 37,000 people, as well as make it the first non-profit statewide integrated care network.

The ongoing dispute between Highmark and UPMC in Pennsylvania had created considerably concern in the state over what would happen to patients with Highmark health plans who receive care from UPMC after 2015 when the contract between the two organizations ends.

A pilot at Boston Medical Center that reduced clinically significant alarms in its cardiac unit made it easier for nurses to respond to alarms signaling genuine problems, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has published a new fact sheet to align providers to the National Quality Strategy.

Financial system transformation is taking center stage as a hospital technology priority as healthcare executives look to remain financially solvent. As such, many struggling hospitals are putting population health and analytics on the back burner, according to a survey from Black Book.

Some of us have been publicly calling for relief in the timelines of the Meaningful Use program since it was created by ARRA in 2009. The recently proposed program changes are thus welcome.  Do they go far enough?

The pressure to control costs and manage risk-based payment systems is changing the reasons why healthcare providers merge finds a new survey of Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) members.

For 2015, the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Health Research Institute (HRI) is forecasting an end to the five-year contraction in the $2.8 trillion health industry. It predicts medical cost growth of 6.8 percent, up from the 6.5 percent it projected for 2014.