Population Health
Boston-based Partners HealthCare and Salt Lake City-based Health Catalyst have agreed to team up to create the Partners HealthCare Center for Population Health and will share best practices, intellectual property, technology and training in an effort to boost its population health management.
In a just-released report on publicly traded healthcare companies, Goldman named Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Clovis Oncology, Pacira Pharmaceuticals, Sage Therapeutics, Evolent Health and Brookdale Senior Living as companies that make attractive targets to buyers.
Walgreens will open 25 new clinics across Oregon and Washington in partnership with hospital operator Providence Health and Services, the company announced on Friday, as the pharmacy chain continues to grow its clinical business.
Hospital-based wellness centers, once seen as marketing tools for innovative health systems, have become a major part of a hospital's population health management program in the era of quality over quantity of care.
Newport's platform is already being used in LIJ's Lenox Hill Hospital, but under the deal it would also be installed at other LIJ facilities.
Clinics partner with a local hospital, a federally qualified health center and other community-based health organizations to reach a down-on-their-luck population sometimes struggling for basic survival.
Tufts Health Plan is working with Iora to open two new Iora Primary Care practices, in Medford and Hyde Park, exclusively for customers on Tufts' Medicare Preferred and Senior Care Options plans, the latter a dual eligibles plan.
Aviation giant Boeing has added Roper St. Francis Health Alliance in Charleston, South Carolina and Mercy in St. Louis to its health plan, according to a Boeing spokesman, as the company continues to grow its in-house benefits network.
Admissions and emergency-room care rose in centers that were part of the experiment compared with results in those that weren't.
Medicare Trustees are projecting that the program's trust fund for hospital insurance coverage will remain solvent until 2030, unchanged from last year, and 13 years longer than the Trustees projected in 2009, before the passage of the Affordable Care Act.