President Obama has fended off Congressional Republicans’ latest stab at rolling back the Affordable Care Act, but this time GOP legislators says things are different: They succeeded for the first time in getting a repeal bill onto the President’s desk.

From long waits to manipulated medical records to preventable deaths, the Department of Veterans Affairs has had more than its share of problems over the past few years. That’s no secret. 

Since 1980, the average hospital stay in the U.S. has decreased from 7.3 days to 4.5 days, the New York Times reports. Austin Frakt, a health economist, notes discharging patients sooner helps hospitals from a financial perspective.

Aetna has announced that it is ending its membership in America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) this year. AHIP is the health insurance industry’s largest trade group, made up of over 1,200 different companies. 

After announcing its plans to switch to Epic EHR and revenue cycle systems, Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic now plans to sell the IT vendor its 62,000-square-foot data center.

A big sign of just how much impact data analytics is having on healthcare is the announcement that one of the Major League Baseball executives from the "Moneyball"-era has joined the faculty of the Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI). 

Anticipating a plunge in the number of uninsured patients, the framers of the Affordable Care Act reduced disproportionate-share (DSH) payments to hospitals serving outsized indigent and Medicaid populations. A recent crunch of the numbers shows the cuts are placing particular pains on children’s hospitals. 

Enrollment in resident and fellow programs increased by 14 percent between 2004 and 2014, according to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), which released a report of biennial data on the physician workforce from the Association of American Medical Colleges.