New York City-based Montefiore Health System has signed an agreement to offer complex medical care to patients from the United Arab Emirates.

Thirty-five health systems have signed letters of intent to participate in Contigo Health, a new company from Premier that links health systems with large, national employers and their health plans.

Renton, Wash.-based Providence St. Joseph Health is unifying its 51 hospitals, 829 clinics and other entities under the "Providence" brand in 2020, the system announced Nov. 11. 

Success in today's healthcare environment requires CFOs to be good businesspeople, according to Venkat Bhamidipati, MBA, executive vice president and CFO at Renton, Wash.-based Providence.

Apple's plan to invest $2.5 billion in affordable housing, like those of Google and Facebook before it, will do little to address California's housing crisis until city and state governments make pledges of their own, The New York Times reports.

The plurality (41 percent) of healthcare executives said buying or merging with a business is their preferred growth strategy for next year, according to a survey from Capital One.

Beaver Dam (Wis.) Community Hospital has changed its name after becoming part of Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic, according to the Daily Citizen. 

Houston-based Baylor College of Medicine is in the early stages of developing a medical center in Shanghai with a Chinese real estate development company, the health system announced Nov. 4.

ChristianaCare is rebranding its care management program Carelink CareNow to "CareVio" as the Wilmington, Del.-based health system further commits to addressing social determinants of health.

Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health further centralized its leadership team by eliminating its two regional president roles, according to The Post and Courier.

Indianapolis-based Riley Hospital for Children inked an agreement Oct. 14 with American University of Beirut Medical Center in Lebanon to formally collaborate in pediatrics, adolescent medicine, pediatric surgery and pediatric cardiac surgery.

The University of Louisville (Ky.) will rename Jewish Hospital and KentuckyOne Health's other Louisville assets after their sale to U of Louisville, according to the Courier Journal.

High-cost claims and specialty pharmacy costs are the top health trends large employers are prioritizing for the next five years, according to an annual health benefits survey from human resources consultant Mercer.

Mastercard launched new products aimed at helping healthcare providers and insurers with billing processes and data protection, the company said Oct. 27.

Amazon has acquired a medical technology startup to help power Amazon Care, a primary care program launched in September at the company's Seattle headquarters.

Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee changed its name to Children's Wisconsin Oct. 21.

Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health System halted a plan to expand its rape crisis services after the hospital's CEO Kevin Spiegel left the organization in September.

Amazon can grow its revenue by $72 billion by targeting three areas in its expansion into healthcare, Loop Capital Markets analyst Anthony Chukumba told CNBC: 

Amazon is aiming to control healthcare spending by paying to send employees to California to receive cancer care, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Quicken Loans opened a concierge health and well-being center for employees Oct. 15 through a partnership with Premise Health, a direct healthcare provider based in Brentwood, Tenn.