Middlesex Hospital

Medical providers, insurers and others have beefed up their security to avoid data breaches, as state and federal regulatory oversight of patient privacy toughens.

Seventeen people have been appointed to serve on a taskforce that will be responsible for comprehensively reviewing Connecticut's laws regulating the ability of healthcare entities to establish new facilities.

Telehealth, or telemedicine, has received a lot of attention since its advent in the 1990s, but odds are you've not yet talked to your doctor through a computer monitor.

If you have concerns about the healthcare system, it may or may not comfort you to know Connecticut hospital CEOs also have plenty of worries.

Middletown's Middlesex Hospital has joined the network of one of the world's foremost patient-care providers and researchers, the Mayo Clinic.

Hartford health insurer Aetna said that it will offer a co-branded accountable care plan next year with Hartford Healthcare and the seven-hospital Value Care Alliance.

Middlesex Hospital and United Healthcare failed to come to terms on a new contract by Aug. 1, which means that the Middletown hospital's non-emergency services are out of network for UHC and Oxford health plans, both sides confirmed Thursday.

Middletown-based Community Health Center Inc. said it has received a $1.2 million federal grant to expand its nurse care-coordination program across its Connecticut locations.

Norwich's Chelsea Groton Bank has cemented its expansion plans into Hartford County with its purchase of the Glastonbury office building that will house its loan-production office.

A fledgling alliance of seven independent Connecticut hospitals has signed an accountable care agreement with insurer Aetna, the Hartford health insurer announced.