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Hospitals face pressures to raise prices as consumers watch costs closely. "In a world where pricing should become less important, it’s actually becoming more important,"….While value-based payments by nature make it harder to pin down fees for services, patients carrying a greater degree of the cost demand price transparency….

The digital health market continues to mature as we move into the second half of 2015,…focus on personalized medicine leading the way,…digital health funding is not outpacing 2014, which was a record year for investments in the market, capital flow is remaining steady this year,...

Centene has agreed to buy Health Net for $6.3 billion is the latest sign insurance carriers known for contracting with states to cover poor Americans are making a bigger push into other medical benefits…providing health benefits to more than 10 million people, a number that is growing as more states agree to expand their Medicaid coverage…

Increasing prescription fraud, forgery attempts, and armed robberies have decidedly alarmed the pharmacy community and should cause us all to pause and review our preparedness…your primary defense is your alarm and security system. Criminals fear hard targets and the more advanced and visible your system is the better.

healthcare industry fares poorly compared to other industries in reducing application security risk,… "Given the large amount of sensitive data collected by healthcare organizations, it's concerning that 80 percent of healthcare applications exhibit cryptographic issues such as weak algorithms upon initial assessment,"…

"Companies have made a commitment to make the same adequate supplies of medicines," …. Hellenic Association of Pharmaceutical Companies (SFEE) would like to see the introduction of export bans, so medicines cannot be traded out of the country…

Aetna Inc on Friday said it would buy smaller rival Humana Inc for about $37 billion in cash and stock, in the largest ever deal in the insurance industry…deal will face antitrust scrutiny but if it goes through...

healthcare industry transitions from a volume-based to a value-based model, more healthcare organizations are adding the position of chief quality officer..…Care value's increased importance, from value-based care to readmission penalties, has made quality of care a priority.

Greek and multinational (pharmaceutical companies), is (are) in constant and close cooperation with the Ministry of Health, doing everything possible to ensure the smooth and uninterrupted supply of the medicine’s distribution chain.

…the number of pharmacy armed robberies across the country increased during the first five months of 2015,…382 pharmacy armed robberies (76.4 per month) reported between January 2015 and June 2015 is ahead of 2014’s pace of 69.16 robberies per month.