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Today’s Healthcare Headlines:

• Ministry Health buys out partner in Wis. system
  Affinity Health System in Wisconsin’s Fox Valley has converted from a jointly sponsored three-hospital system into an entity controlled by a single Roman Catholic hospital operator with the goal of becoming an accountable care organization.
• HHS aims to curb pre-term births
  The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation will award about $40 million in grants to test approaches that can help reduce the rising number of pre-term births in the U.S.
• Brookings report: Barriers limit state health information exchanges
  The current governance, financing and policy barriers limit state health information exchanges from reaching their full potential, the Brookings Institution said in a report.
• Recondo Technology acquires Trilogi
  Recondo Technology, the Greenwood Village, Colo.-based healthcare revenue-cycle software developer, announced the acquisition of Lakeland, Fla.-based Trilogi, a revenue-cycle management and recovery company.
• Atlanta-area hospitals seek consolidation
  A consolidation agreement may be
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