Beth Jones Sanborn
DataMotion Health has released the results of a survey it conducted during the 2016 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition, which took place last week in Las Vegas, that show Hillary Clinton as the clear frontrunner when it comes to health IT professionals, providers, executives and other industry personnel.
After almost two decades under the leadership of current president and CEO Dan Wolterman, Memorial Hermann Health System in Texas has named Benjamin K. Chu, MD, as his successor, the system announced Tuesday.
Olympus Corp. of America, the largest distributor of endoscopes and related equipment has agreed to pay $623.2 million to resolve criminal charges and civil claims stemming from a kickback scheme involving doctors and hospitals. Their Latin America subsidiary, Olympus Latin America, will pay $22.8 million to settle related charges, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced earlier this month.
Shawn Griffin, MD, chief quality and informatics officer for Houston-based Memorial Hermann Physician Network, posed a question Monday at the Volume to Value-based gathering at HIMSS16, illustrating what he says should be the key driver in any system's move from volume to value-based payment.
Two Dallas-area doctors have been charged, according to a superseding indictment that was unsealed Friday, for their alleged participation in a $13.4 million health care fraud scheme that bilked Medicare for millions.
LAS VEGAS- HCA Far West Division, a network of hospitals and surgery centers in California and Nevada, on Tuesday broke ground on a new provider-based emergency facility called ER on the Lakes.
It's an big week for Healthcare Finance News and Healthcare IT News as we cover the Himss16 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada!
St. Clair Hospital in Pittsburgh and Experian Health, the healthcare-focused business branch of Experian, announced a new online cost transparency tool Monday called Patient Estimates that will make it easier for patients to get a clear picture of what their out-of-pocket financial obligations will be for services at the Hospital or it's outpatient centers.
Two Flint, Michigan health centers have been awarded $500,000 by the Health and Human Services Department to expand their responses to the recent lead contamination disaster of Flint's water, HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced Thursday, along with HHS Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Dr. Nicole Lurie, who is leading the federal response and recovery effort in Flint.
University of Chicago Medicine is moving to address a long-standing lack of access to emergency, adult trauma and complex care for the city's South Side residents with a $269 million expansion project they call the "Get CARE Initiative". The system submitted the plan and a certificate of need to state regulators this week, UChicago Medicine said in a statement released Thursday.