Kurt Salmon, consulting company in several fields including healthcare, has chosen Orange County, Calif., as the site for their new Market Intelligence Center, according to a company news release.

Massachusetts's Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care have announced they are exploring a merger and are working to develop a memorandum of understanding in order to better compete with juggernaut Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, according to…

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is planning to expand into China through cancer treatment centers and other health-related programs, according to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review report. UPMC began discussions with Chinese officials less than a year ago and have identified potential…

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Investors are more optimistic about the impact of healthcare reform on health insurers because recent regulations based on the law have been relatively industry-friendly, according to a report by Politico.

Volume of spine procedures, pushed down last year by reactions to prominent studies questioning the efficacy of some treatments, is expected to bounce back in 2011, according to Matthew O'Brien, an analyst at William Blair & Co. But Mr. O'Brien,…

Here, in alphabetical order, are 15 systems that have exhibited significant growth and made great strides in the past five years. Some of them were unknown five years ago while others are familiar names that kept expanding and, in many…

Through a recent joint-venture partnership, global real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle will provide Beaumont Hospitals in Michigan with management services for the 3-hospital system’s facilities, construction projects and real estate transactions, according to a Jones Lang LaSalle news release.…

LHC Group, a national provider of home health and hospice, has acquired hospice locations in Alabama and Louisiana and entered into a home health joint venture with a hospital in Kentucky, according to a company news release.

Delos M. “Toby” Cosgrove, MD, CEO of Cleveland Clinic, has been credited for the idea of a Medical Mart in Cleveland, on which construction will begin in January as part of the city’s effort to rebrand itself as a healthcare…