UnitedHealth’s first-quarter revenue grew 9% to $70.2 billion and profit climbed as costs for Covid-19 care fell and membership rose in its insurance plans.

The companies’ $16 billion deal is the latest sign that the next battleground for technology giants will be in healthcare, an industry whose need to embrace data and software was underscored by the pandemic.

‘Synthetic-data technology,’ by creating artificial patient populations, has the potential to speed up innovations without compromising privacy.

A coalition that includes tech giants and healthcare providers is preparing to release global standards for mobile apps that verify whether someone has had a Covid-19 vaccine.

Private-equity backed healthcare businesses headed to public markets in droves last year, an exit trend that is expected to extend into 2021, according to a report on the sector.

Website administrators are tackling things like confusing interfaces and pages prone to dropping information and freezing.

A pioneer in global health has battled pandemics and worked to bolster clinical systems from Sierra Leone to Kazakhstan

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is opposed by Republican senators who plan to argue President Biden’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary is overly liberal and lacks public-health experience.

As more-transmissible Covid-19 virus variants emerge, a few coronavirus tests fail to pick up on a section of the U.K. variant’s genetic code, which is allowing health authorities to more quickly find cases.

One example: The healthcare provider had to make close to 3,000 changes in its electronic health-records system.

IBM is studying alternatives for the unit that could include a sale to a private-equity firm or industry player, or a merger with a blank-check company, as the technology giant moves to streamline and become more competitive in cloud computing.

The move would add roughly 30 hospitals across six states and create an entity worth more than $10 billion including debt.

New federally mandated disclosures by California’s Sutter Health illustrate the wide disparity in healthcare rates negotiated by insurers.

Alabama’s public-health system, poorly funded for years, has lacked the staff and technology to mount a robust vaccine campaign; local hospitals and officials scrambled to fill the gap.

The Journal is changing editing style to go to one word on healthcare, daycare and ebook.

Five victims were rushed to local trauma centers and a suspected gunman taken into custody after a shooting at a health clinic in Buffalo, Minn., authorities said.

As a shortage of shots slows vaccination efforts in the West, groups that haven't been given high priority are increasingly jostling for the right to get immunized first.

Persistent threats come from ransomware gangs, financial scammers and hackers backed by nation-states, current and former hospital security chiefs say.

Public-health officials hoped front-line workers in hospitals and care facilities would set an example by quickly and willingly getting a Covid-19 vaccine, but a surprising number are hesitating.

President Biden signed executive orders directing the government to re-examine Trump-era health-care policies, which could lead to the unraveling of initiatives like Medicaid work requirements and short-term health plans.