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A new study shows an increase in the rate of inpatient complications, including infections and falls, though patients were no more likely to die.

“We were not surprised there was a signal,” said Dr. Sneha Kannan, a Mass General physician who was the paper’s lead author. “I will say we were surprised at how strong it was.”

Congress funded the government with a stopgap measure into the new year, but many health policy priorities remain to be addressed.

And the third Republican presidential debate kicks off at 8 p.m. tonight in Miami.

From the blog of Naomi Graetz at The Times of Israel

Roundup summary of digital health hires and executive board appointments from GHX, QuantHealth, Hopper, Icario, Carenet Health, others

The company also added two new members to its board of directors and a new senior vice president for Medicare Advantage.

Aledade has raised nearly $678 million since the physician enablement company was founded in 2014, according to Modern Healthcare data. 

Aledade, a Bethesda, MD-based network of independent primary care practices raises $260M in Series F funding round led by Lightspeed Venture

The problems of America's health care system can best be addressedthrough market-based solutions. The evidence indicates that undernational health insurance, the promise of coverage becomes healthrationing, access to universal coverage means delays in access tocare, official fairness yields to favoritism by officials, freedomof choice becomes coerced conformity, and democratic deliberationis replaced by bureaucratic decision-making.