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Accountable care organizations are incentivized to keep their patients healthy and shrink healthcare expenditures. Ensuring that patients with chronic diseases take their medications as prescribed and stay out of the hospital is a priority for ACOs. As a result, it…

Police are ruling a Thursday night incident in which a woman shot herself in the head in a Cleveland-based MetroHealth Medical Center parking garage a murder-attempted suicide, according to a report from local TV station WTOV9.

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration appointed Rafael Miguel, MD, to its Anesthetic and Analgesic Drug Products Advisory Committee.

Along with its move to a new facility, the name of Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa (Calif.) will undergo a change too, according to a North Bay Business Journal.

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, PhD, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, has launched a nonpartisan think tank: The Center for Health and Economy.

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Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health has opened a new cancer center and a new bone and joint institute in Texas.

The Heart Hospital Baylor Denton in Denton, Texas, has opened.

The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act changed the health IT landscape for providers by offering significant amounts of money in exchange for the adoption and implementation of electronic medical records. Think of it as "the carrot," although there is…