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During the opening keynote of the recent NextGen Growth & Leadership Summit in Nashville, Nelson Griswold warned that the benefits industry underestimates the threat of single-payer at its own peril.

Microsoft is releasing a service to help health-care companies move vast amounts of patient data to its cloud and connect with other related systems.

Companies are aggregating data to create patient "risk scores," which are then used to identify patients in certain risk categories.

While much of the discussion around lowering pharmacy costs has focused on PBM rebates, working with wholesalers could be another promising avenue.

New research is adding to the debate about the role of mergers and acquisitions in hospital costs and health care costs overall.

When the ACA went into effect, it supplemented the existing employer-based system but did not, as many feared, replace it.