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A group of federally-qualified health centers in the Minneapolis area has broken the mold by creating the first safety-net ACO.

Less than a month before the new year, Minnesota joined three other states looking for a new health insurance exchange leader, after the first director, a former state economist and insurance company vice president, stepped down amid website dysfunction, a data breach and an ill-timed vacation.

Six years after the New York Department of Health started publishing hospital-acquired infection data as part of a public transparency agenda, the rates of most infections are trending downward, and benefiting health and financial outcomes.

Future hospital CEOs will have little to no healthcare experience suggests a report detailing developing trends impacting how headhunters will seek candidates.

Get ready, because data breaches are expected to rise in 2014, especially in the healthcare industry. New security threats and regulations that call for more transparency will be partly to blame.

In a major departure from industry practice, GlaxoSmithKline, the sixth-largest global drug maker, announced Tuesday that it will no longer hire doctors to promote its drugs and will stop tying compensation for sales representatives to the number of prescriptions written for drugs they market.

HealthCare.gov has a new czar to replace fix-it guy Jeff Zients: former Microsoft executive Kurt DelBene.

Mired deep in early problems it didn't expect with the exchanges, Aetna turned to tools from its previous large enrollment experiences to get operations on track.

As providers move slowly toward value-based models, board structure and governance practices are aligning to the new business paradigm. But they still have a long way to go, particularly in the areas of diversity and governance processes.

Tennessee's three incumbent Medicaid managed care organizations won the latest rebid contracts, although at least one of them may end up with fewer members and revenue.