The American College of Surgeons convened in Chicago last fall, and among the highlights was a spate of studies showing improved access to their service lines as the Affordable Care Act and related reforms have expanded insurance coverage. 

Royal Philips and Greenbrae, Calif.-based Marin General Hospital (MGH) announced this week they have agreed to a 15-year, $90 million strategic partnership to improve the overall quality of care the hospital can provide.

Texas has the dubious distinction of being ranked last among states when it comes to telemedicine implementation.  

The American Medical Association's efforts to improve healthcare are deeply affected by the regulatory domain, so "we're working closely with agencies to craft a more sensible future," said James L. Madara, MD, the group's CEO and executive vice president, speaking at the 34th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco.

Most nurses (79 percent) in the ICU agree that tele-ICU systems enable nurses to improve patient care, according to findings published in the American Journal of Critical Care.

More than half of health information management professionals routinely work on mitigating patient record duplicates at their organization and 73 percent of those do so weekly, according to a survey conducted by AHIMA. 

Massachusetts will launch a public-private partnership designed to accelerate the competitiveness of its digital healthcare industry. 

Approximately one in three working-age cancer survivors went into debt after beating the disease, according to a recent study published in Health Affairs. In addition, three percent of those individuals filed for bankruptcy as a result of their high medical bills.