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50 great health systems to know | 2015
Call Me in the Morning: The Future of Personalized Medicine
Cerner lands $16.3M lab software deal with US Army—but still vying for big DOD contract
Along with Epic Systems, Allscripts Healthcare Solutions and others, the company is still vying for the big 10-year Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization project (DHMSM) contract, estimated to be worth $11 billion. The new EHR system would replace what currently exists at 56 military hospitals and 300 clinics worldwide.
Hospitals fire back at GAO study faulting 340B program
http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/hospitals-fire-back-at-gao-study-faulting-340b-program/402011/
Hospitals and the HHS are questioning GAO findings that hospitals serving high numbers of low- income patients abuse a federal drug discount via the 340B Drug Pricing Program by overprescribing medications.
Do no harm: There’s an infection hospitals can nearly always prevent. Why don’t they?
CVS Health quit tobacco—and now it’s quitting the Chamber of Commerce
CVS, which stopped selling tobacco products, said the Chamber of Commerce’s position ran counter to its mission
CMS proposes paying for end-of-life planning in new draft rule
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Wednesday released a draft of Medicare’s first physician payment rule that would reimburse physicians for providing end-of-life counseling.
GREEK HOSPITALS RUNNING OUT OF MONEY, LIFE EXPECTANCY CRASHING AS ECONOMY COLLAPSES
