Cascade Medical Center in Leavenworth, Wash., was robbed by hackers who broke into an electronic bank account and stole more than $1 million, according to a report by the Wenatchee World.
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Greensboro, N.C-based Cone Health announced the Federal Trade Commission will allow it to move forward with its agreement to merge Burlington, N.C.-based Alamance Regional Medical Center into its system, expected to be finalized Wednesday.
Officials from United General Hospital in Sedro-Woolley, Wash., announced they have agreed to delay the start of a 30-year operating agreement with Longview, Wash.-based PeaceHealth to no later than July 1, 2014.
Mississippi lawmakers passed a law allowing the University of Mississippi Medical Center based in Jackson to take over the county-owned Grenada (Miss.) Lake Medical Center, according to a report from the Clarion Ledger.
The FDA has released an update to its plan to monitor medical devices, which includes the use of electronic health records and mobile applications.
Minneapolis-based Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota announced that it has successfully implemented a system, the first of its kind in the country, that allows for the wireless transfer of data between patients' infusion pumps and electronic health records.
Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) has introduced House of Representatives bill 1701 that would prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from implementing ICD-10, according to an ICD-10 Watch report.
California lawmakers are proposing a change that would strip the Medical Board of California of its power to investigate physician misconduct. Rather, those powers would fall on the state attorney general, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
The following hospital mergers, acquisitions and general transaction news took place within the past week, beginning with the most recent.
TransUnion Healthcare conducted a survey of insured patients and discovered a correlation between positive billing experience and higher reported overall care, according to a Wall Street Journal report.