Eric Wicklund
Siemens Financial Services is expanding its healthcare financing department to include project, construction and permanent real estate financing, as well as asset-based and cash flow-based term loans.
Verisk Health, based in Waltham, Mass., has announced that its Sightlines Performance Measurement solution, designed to enable managed care organizations to review results quickly and easily for Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) quality measurement and reporting solutions, has been fully certified by the National Committee for Quality Assurance.
A proposal by Holy Cross Hospital to build a new hospital in Maryland's hotly contested Montgomery County is being challenged by a rival hospital with similar plans - and concerns that religious directives could get in the way of providing certain community services.
The Healthcare Trust of America, Inc., a self-managed, non-traded real estate investment trust, has completed the acquisition of a medical office park in Cary, N.C., for $28.2 million.
Atlanta-based MedAssets has recently announced deals with three healthcare systems that are designed to bring clinicians into the picture when determining how to cut waste and save money on supplies.
The push to create a patient-centered medical home is gaining traction in Texas, where one of the state's largest hospital groups has acquired an independent physician practice and the management services organization that oversees the physicians.
The Methodist Healthcare System has announced the acquisition of Texsan Heart Hospital, a 120-bed specialty hospital in San Antonio, and plans to expand the struggling hospital's services to attract more patients.
McKesson, based in Atlanta, has announced that three of its physician electronic health record and practice management solutions have been certified as 2011/2012 compliant by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology.
A two-hospital system in Ohio has come up with a unique way to pay for its new electronic medical record system: Selling the leasing rights to its non-hospital properties.
Two healthcare networks in North Carolina's competitive Research Triangle are waging a sometimes-heated battle for affiliations with local physician practices.