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The center is the largest of the 10 located in the Bay area that provide access to Stanford Children's Health clinicians. The hope is to bring follow-up and ongoing care closer to where pediatric patients live, as well as expand access to care for couples dealing with fertility issues.
The federal government is already pushing providers towards more risk, so it's not surprising that many are going all in by sponsoring a health plan.
Four well-known Wisconsin healthcare organizations, Affinity Health System, Columbia St. Mary's, Ministry Health Care and Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, will integrate and form Ascension Wisconsin, the systems announced this week. The new system will be part of parent company Ascension, the largest nonprofit health system in the United States and the world's largest Catholic health system.
Seeking to improve patient safety and reduce hospital readmissions, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is readying a series of "Hospital Improvement and Innovation Networks" (HIINs).
Coordination is critical to successfully fending off cybercriminals, Intermountain Healthcare CIO and College of Healthcare Information Management Executives Board Chair Marc Probst told a congressional panel on Wednesday.
Mount Sinai executives describe the project as an expanded and unified network comprising state-of-the-art facilities stretching from the East River to the Hudson River below 34th Street.
Steven Lipstein, chief executive of BJC, which includes Barnes-Jewish hospital in St. Louis, said Medicare doesn't play fair because its formula for setting penalties does not factor in patients with socioeconomic disadvantages -- low-income, poor health habits and chronic illnesses for instance -- that contribute to repeated hospitalizations.
This prototype machine produces 1,000 pills in 24 hours, faster than it can take to produce some batches in a factory. Allan Myerson, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT and a leader of the effort, says it could become eventually an option for anyone who makes medications, which typically require a lengthy and complex process of crystallization.
AmSurg Corp.'s Physician Services Division, known as Sheridan, on Wednesday said it has acquired Jandee Anesthesiology Partners and certain assets of Karadan Anesthesiology and Pain Management.
The Office for Civil Rights, a division of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, today clarified that doctors and hospitals can charge more than $6.50 to provide patients an electronic copy of their records if they can show that the actual costs were higher.