The County of Santa Clara, California and HCA Healthcare have reached a definitive agreement in which the county will purchase Regional Medical Center for $150 million, the county said.

Seventeen health systems have launched the Truveta Genome Project to create what Truveta is calling the largest and most diverse database of genotypic and phenotypic information ever assembled.  The health systems, with Illumina and Regeneron, have invested $320M in Truveta preferred equity at a valuation exceeding $1 billion, according to Truveta. 

There’s variability in the sector depending on financial resources and post-acute settings were not funded under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, says Robert Latz, CIO, Trinity Rehabilitation Services.  

The brand-name drugs covered under Medicare Part D have nearly doubled in price, and 25 of them are now up 98% since they debuted in the market, a new AARP Public Policy Institute analysis has found.