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While experts once predicted savings of as much as $81 billion a year from electronic records, U.S. health care spending has continued to increase, partly because of systems that don’t share information, they say.

By the time Astra Augustus left Virtua Memorial Hospital in New Jersey after the last of four surgeries, she’d run up about $255,000 in bills.

Insurer Boasts 2% Average Fees on Annuity Assets.

New York City’s police pension won’t sell about $10 million in gun-related holdings, the president of the biggest officer union says.

Bacteria — including E. coli resistant to all or nearly all antibiotics — are being seen in increasing numbers, according to news this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Worse, the most dangerous kind of bacteria are growing in proportion.

People who suffer from insomnia may have an increased risk of heart failure, according to the largest study ever to investigate the link.

Pressure is growing to change incentives for retirement savings as U.S. lawmakers look for revenue, and top earners may pay the price.

Principal Financial Group Inc., the seller of life insurance and retirement products, agreed to buy a 55% stake in Liongate Capital Management LLP to expand in hedge funds and meet demand for alternative investments.

Aetna Inc., Cigna Corp. and Bupa Insurance Ltd. may bid for Abraaj Capital Ltd.’s half of Turkish health insurer Acibadem Saglik & Hayat Sigorta AS, according to three people familiar with the sale.

Opponents of a European Union financial-transactions tax say pension funds will be hurt even if their home governments don’t sign up.

A recent study finds wide variety between the lowest and highest charges for 10 common conditions, highlighting the unpredictability of health care costs.

Twenty-seven years after women first complained in 1986 about bumping against an invisible barrier — dubbed the glass ceiling — when they aimed for top jobs, just 21 are chief executive officers of companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. Now, a rash of books, from Facebook Inc. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg to former State Department official Anne-Marie Slaughter, are soon to be published, seeking to empower women.

The misdiagnoses occurred most often during the doctor’s examination, including trouble getting a complete history from the patient, performing the physical exam and ordering tests, according to research published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The labor market is healing faster for immigrants than for U.S.-born workers as the growing economy favors those at the low and high ends of the pay scale.

President Barack Obama’s administration released a state-by-state report on how $85 billion in automatic spending cuts will degrade programs from defense to education to public health as White House officials say they don’t expect to avert reductions to start March 1.

Bank of America Corp., the second-largest U.S. lender, attracted record new assets last year to its unit servicing retirement and other employee-benefit plans as it cross-sold products through the commercial bank.

Even companies who have no interest in getting involved with a public health care exchange for active employees might help steer their pre-65 retirees toward the marketplace, experts with Fidelity Investments said Thursday.

UnitedHealth Group Inc., the biggest U.S. medical insurer, is set to face claims that it failed to properly oversee a Las Vegas doctor who gave colonoscopy patients hepatitis C by mishandling the anesthetic Propofol.

The average U.S. balance rose 12% from 2011 to $77,300 as of Dec. 31, 2012, according to a report this month.

Americans say they’re filling up less on fast food and pizza, according to a U.S. survey.