The $1.25 billion sale of Thomson Reuters Healthcare to an affiliate of Veritas Capital in April has resulted in a newly independent company called Truven Health Analytics.
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Premier healthcare alliance has launched PremierConnect, a technology platform that will allow more than 100,000 hospital executives, clinicians, supply chain leaders and other providers nationwide to share data and strategies based on patient outcomes.
Health plans have the proper access to capital, professional management experience, information technology infrastructure and experience with financial risk to lead the way in forming more accountable care organizations, according to an editorial published in the Journal of the American…
Stony Brook (N.Y.) University Hospital has named L. Reuven Pasternak, MD, as CEO and vice president for Health Systems for Stony Brook Medicine, effective Sept. 1.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is launching a new standards and interoperability framework, Health eDecisions, according to a Healthcare Informatics report.
Community Memorial Hospital in Hamilton, N.Y., has named Sean Fadale as CEO, effective Aug. 6, according to a Central New York Business Journal report.
The New York eHealth Collaborative and the New York State Department of Health have announced that three regional health information organizations and three health information exchange vendors will participate in the Statewide Health Information Network of New York, or "SHIN-NY,"…
The boards of NYU Langone Medical Center and Continuum Health Partners, both New York City-based non-profits, have approved a memorandum of understanding for a merger that would create one of the largest healthcare systems in New York City, according to…
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology announced a new program to identify successful strategies most likely to benefit other infection prevention initiatives.
The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council announced approximately one out of eight adult inpatient stays in Pennsylvania general acute-care hospitals in 2010 were potentially preventable, generating a cost of more than $500 million.