California has the second-most hospitals of any state in the country, and many are finding copious challenges in the transition to a value-based financial system over the traditional fee-for-service system, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
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Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas has named Ronald Laxton as chief implementation officer, according to a Dallas Business Journal report.
Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America has agreed to develop a primary care and urgent care clinic at Gaylord Entertainment's Nashville hotel, according to a Nashville Business Journal report.
The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has scheduled a public hearing for the reorganization of health insurer Highmark for April 17, according to a Pittsburgh Business Times report.
A judge has appointed a Chapter 11 trustee to oversee all operations of Peninsula Hospital Center in Queens, N.Y., which filed for bankruptcy last August, according to a Crain's New York Business report.
Heartland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph, Mo., has opened four new operating rooms, according to a St. Joseph News-Press report.
Language barriers could deter more than 100,000 Californians from enrolling in the state's health benefit exchange, according to a study released today by the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the UC Berkeley Center…
Researchers at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville have developed a portable device that can be used onsite to detect infectious diseases, pathogens as well as physiological conditions in people.
In November 2011, Beth Israel Medical Center in New York began using an interoperability service that allows it to send patients' radiology test results directly to the electronic health records of a group of its referring physicians. This service strengthened…
Parkland Health & Hospital System's board of managers and senior leadership received a system-wide corrective action plan from consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal.