Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions: A Promising New Environment for Medical Research?
The changing health care landscape, accelerated by the Affordable Care Act, has signaled a move of the federal government, as well as private insurers, from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursements. To ramp up for this change, academic health centers are creating larger, integrated care delivery systems through mergers and acquisitions of hospitals, physician practices, and potentially […]
Precision Medicine and the Women of Impact
At President Obama’s announcement of the Precision Medicine initiative in January, among fewer than 100 invited guests were two charter members of Women of Impact: Sharon Terry, president and CEO of Genetic Alliance, and Ann Bonham, chief scientific officer at the Association of American Medical Colleges. There is much in common between the goals of the initiative […]