Business Diversification news and information

Five years after Wal-Mart Stores promised to open thousands of healthcare clinics in its sprawling supercenters, it has fallen far behind its industry rivals in what has become a race to provide basic medical care in stores.
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Ascension Health Alliance announced a partnership with an Indian-based healthcare provider to build a $2 billion health campus on Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands.
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Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center has partnered with CincyTech, a not-for-profit business development organization, also based in Cincinnati, to form QI Healthcare, a new company that will sell the hospital's in-house quality-improvement software.
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NantWorks, a Los Angeles health technology company founded in September 2011 by billionaire philanthropist Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, has acquired Boston Life Labs, which provides hardware and software products used in...
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The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society acquired the mHealth Summit, a conference on health and mobile technology, from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, a not-for-profit organization established by Congress. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Despite the gloomy economic times, the future looks bright for physician entrepreneurship and bioinnovation.
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Creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, new ideas and old-fashioned Yankee ingenuity are the new coin of the realm.
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Buffalo, N.Y.-based Algonquin Studios, a provider of software development, Web content management and website design for the finance, healthcare and legal industries, has spun off its information technology services department to form a new company.
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For biomedical and healthcare entrepreneurs, a good idea is not enough.
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General Electric Co. will partner with Microsoft Corp. in a joint venture in which the two companies will pool some existing health technology products and develop a new technology platform and clinical applications focused on health management.
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