Internet searchers of common heart disease symptoms closely resemble geographic and seasonal trends of coronary heart disease hospitalizations, according to a study to be presented at American College of Cardiology's 67th Annual Scientific Session.

The previously proposed merger between Boston’s Partners Healthcare and Care New England, one of the largest systems in Rhode Island, may have a third partner: Lifespan, the operator of Rhode Island Hospital.

Hawaii topped the second annual U.S. News and World Report state healthcare rankings, which used measures of access, quality and public health to come up with each state’s health score.

A group of senators has introduced a new bill aimed at fighting opioid abuse and addiction, including limits on initial prescriptions for acute pain and an expanded role for non-physician practitioners in prescribing buprenorphine.

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have found shared decision-making making between patients and providers could improve the quality of final decisions made in high-risk situations. Findings were published online Feb. 26 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

To tackle health disparities between Chicago’s West Side and wealthier, predominantly white neighborhoods elsewhere in the city, Rush University Medical Center is leading a group of nine hospitals and health systems to make investments and hire people from disadvantaged communities.

In an article for Health Affairs, a group of fellows at the Brookings Institution made the case for replacing the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) with “stronger incentives” to move into alternative payment models (APMs).

In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s individual mandate. With the mandate’s penalty now eliminated under President Donald Trump, 20 states are using the earlier ruling as the basis for a new lawsuit seeking to “effectively repeal Obamacare.”