The inaugural class of Top 25 Innovators found new ways to engage consumers, improve quality of care and lower costs.

Only 69% of respondents said their hospital was very or extremely successful at sharing medical data within their own organization, with most relying on using a single EHR.

Some investor-owned health insurers and hospital chains pay former CEOs to stay on board as consultants. Experts say the practice could be to enforce noncompete agreements. 

Health information exchanges are one of the strategies healthcare organizations have employed to improve interoperability.

A disturbingly high number of health plans are geared to override the judgment of physicians and give patients the medicines that they—the insurers—want them to take.

The emergency medicine physician will assume the role from Robert Burgess, who has served as interim CEO since Teri Fontenot's retirement earlier this year.

Planned Parenthood and seven states announced they will exit the federal family planning program over the Trump administration's new rules.

After pushing more medical care out of hospitals and into patients' homes, the federal government wants to pay less for home healthcare.

With a few exceptions, top-level healthcare executives continue to see big gains in compensation, a trend at odds with the industry’s push for cost control and accountability.

In separate meetings, CMS and ONC leaders are slated to provide updates on how the government plans to improve health information exchange.

Rather than blaming people for not being more aware, I want to help each of us realize what being an ally might require in order to translate “good people’s” desire to help into concrete actions.

Healthcare providers say they will rely on their relationships with community stakeholders now more than ever to talk with immigrant populations about access to care.

As nursing shortages hit the Southern and Western U.S., health systems are turning to new tech tools to improve recruitment, retention and education.

A new report using data from Colorado's All Payer Claims Database shows the facility fees hospitals or freestanding emergency rooms charge for emergency visits vary across the board.

Mayo Clinic CFO Dennis Dahlen says consumers need information that’s “actually helpful,” in determining their out-of-pocket expenses.

Despite concerns that patients might overuse a program to directly message their physician after surgery, an orthopedic group found that patients didn’t abuse the capability.

It will be funded with money that otherwise would have been used as premium tax credits and through a premium tax on all major medical plans sold in the state.

Nomad Health, the Manhattan-based company focused on bringing transparency to healthcare staffing, said it had raised $34 million from venture capital firms in equity and debt funding.

Healthcare policy and antitrust experts doubt the proposed marriage between Massachusetts-based health insurers Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan would benefit patients.

The Trump administration in 2020 will being posting quality ratings for insurance plans on the Affordable Care Act exchanges.

About 700,000 fewer people were enrolled in health insurance coverage in 2017 compared with the year before, marking the first year that the uninsured rate has risen since the major Affordable Care Act reforms took effect, a new study shows.

Anesthesia Associates of Ann Arbor, the largest anesthesiology and pain-management medical group in Michigan, has sued Trinity Health Michigan over an allegation the system improperly tried to hire away some of its providers.

Grays Harbor Community Hospital in Aberdeen, Wash., and its subsidiary Harbor Medical Group are recovering from a ransomware attack that encrypted files across its network, including electronic health records.

The American Medical Association is the first major group to leave the high-profile Partnership for America's Health Care Future, aimed at killing single-payer and public-option proposals.

The public charge rule finalized last week ostensibly prevents immigrants from seeking healthcare through public programs or risk jeopardizing their chance at citizenship. What will providers do to stem any negative impact?

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions reported strong bookings for the second quarter of 2019, primarily driven by growth in its provider and Veradigm payer and life sciences divisions.