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A $375 million investment from Google’s parent company, Alphabet, will help Oscar Health launch Medicare Advantage plans and deepen its presence in the individual and small business markets.

Activist investor Carl Icahn will no longer urge stockholders to vote down the proposed merger between Cigna Corp. and Express Scripts after two independent advisory firms recommended voters approve the deal.

The country’s largest public health information exchange will use Verato’s Universal MPI for referential patient matching, which it says will reduce uncertainty when linking patients to their health data.

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and Salesforce came together to push more comprehensive health data exchange, which they said will improve outcomes and lower costs.

Decatur, Ga.-based DeKalb Medical and its three hospitals will operate under Atlanta-based Emory, which includes a seven-hospital network.

UnitedHealthcare may be required to transfer millions of dollars to New York insurers that enrolled high-cost members in their plans in 2017, based on a federal judge’s decision.

Most of us are practiced at the art of distinguishing a well-designed website: easy to understand, responsive and nimble. But while the use of EHRs is at an all-time high within hospitals, these systems can’t claim any of those positive attributes.

A Florida-based healthcare company that could receive a $60.3 million state contract to run a 21-bed Maine residence for some psychiatric patients is fighting to keep its proposal secret.

Giving providers cost and risk information at the point of care might lead to fewer unnecessary tests and lower costs.

Healthcare is one-fifth of the nation’s economy and a job creator, adding 16,700 positions in July, on top of the 25,200 added in June. So it is a bit of a head scratcher as to why industry executives weren’t part of the conversation.