Economics

This channel highlights factors that impact hospital and healthcare economics and revenue. This includes news on healthcare policies, reimbursement, marketing, business plans, mergers and acquisitions, supply chain, salaries, staffing, and the implementation of a cost-effective environment for patients and providers.

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Bina Technologies is acquired by Roche

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 19, 2014-- Bina Technologies, Inc. (Bina, Redwood City, CA, USA) announced today that they have been acquired by Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY).

ACO spending benchmarks have unintended consequences

Current rules for setting accountable care organization (ACO) spending targets diminish ACOs’ incentives to generate savings and may even encourage higher Medicare spending, according to a study published in Health Affairs.

Allina signs $100M deal to outsource data analytics

Allina Health, a $3.7 billion nonprofit that serves nearly 1 million patients in Minnesota and western Wisconsin, has signed a deal worth more than $100 million with vendor Health Catalyst to outsource its data warehousing, analytics and performance improvement.

FDA expands medical device surveillance program

After five years, the FDA is transitioning its Mini-Sentinel program to a full-scale Sentinel System.

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Teaching hospitals take brunt of medical error penalties

Half of U.S. teaching hospitals are being penalized by Medicare for high rates of infection and medical errors.

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Details emerge on CHIME and KLAS partnership

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives has formalized its partnership agreement with research firm KLAS Enterprises to accelerate industry performance and provide support to health IT leaders.

Stanson Health partners with Consumer Reports to deliver guidance to patients at the point of care

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Stanson Health, a population health clinical decision support (CDS) and analytics company, announced today that it has licensed health content from Consumer Reports for distribution within Stanson's next-generation CDS solution.

CMS releases quality data for public consumer sites

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released data on the quality of care by physician groups, accountable care organizations and hospitals on multiple consumer websites.

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Medsender, Patagonia Health team up to aid public health efforts against COVID-19

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.

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