More than 100,000 people signed up for coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplace the day after the presidential election.

As the initial shock of Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the presidential race wears off, his HHS transition team now has a leader and major professional associations are reaching out with policy priorities—which for some groups may include fighting the president-elect’s promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Increased collaboration among doctors could result in better patient outcomes, particularly when treating heart surgery patients, new research finds.

Researchers at the University of Michigan Medical School have found survival rates of heart surgery patients correlate with the amount of cooperation among the care team through preparation, operation, hospitalization and recuperation processes.

Besides the presidential election’s ramifications on the healthcare industry, there were several important ballot initiatives affecting health policy across the country. 

Immunotherapy is poised to take the place of surgery and chemotherapy as the most effective method in cancer care. Yet, for all the patients having positive experiences with immunotherapy there are some individuals where this treatment is rendered ineffective for an unknown reason. Researchers at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute at the University of Cambridge have discovered a weight loss condition in cancer patients may be the reason immunotherapy fails in treating certain patients

Baptist Health South Florida has announced its considering a merger with Fishermen’s Community Hospital in the Florida Keys, continuing the system’s expansion across the region.

Healthcare’s new reality could be a return to pre-Affordable Care Act (ACA) policies and turning Medicaid into a state block grant program after Donald Trump’s upset victory in the 2016 presidential election.