Providence Health & Services and St. Joseph Health, two Catholic health systems with Southern California locations, are in talks to combine into a single organization that would span from Washington state into Texas.
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Temple launches department-specific digital health center (video)
CHS Spinoff to Focus on Rural Healthcare
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Backed by Community Health Systems, Quorum Health aims to improve services at rural hospitals. It will operate 36 small hospitals in 16 states.
Healthcare organizations: Steer clear of vendors with ties to terrorism
5 Emerging Technologies Every Hospital Will Have By 2025
Wearable fitness devices and smartphone health apps that generate continuous streams of data will be the biggest catalysts for change at your doctor’s office in the coming decades. Investors seem excited about the potential. Digital health startups attracted investments of $6.5 billion in 2014, a 125 percent increase from the previous year. If the momentum continues, wearables—coupled with social and analytic platforms based in the cloud—are poised to offer a new digitized picture of our health in the next decade.
2016 IPPS Final Rule Detailed
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule comes with an estimate: One in five hospitals will be penalized with a 1% reduction in MS-DRG payments for all traditional Medicare discharges in FY 2016.
Fueling Top-Line Health System Growth
The creepiness factor in healthcare data analytics
Half Of Nation’s Hospitals Fail Again To Escape Medicare’s Readmission Penalties
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Once again, the majority of the nation’s hospitals are being penalized by Medicare for having patients frequently return within a month of discharge — this time losing a combined $420 million, government records show.
Do Medicare Advantage plans pay providers different rates than traditional Medicare?–ctd.
Do Medicare Advantage plans pay providers different rates than traditional Medicare?–ctd.
Contemplating health care with a focus on research, an eye on reform
HENRY KOTULA 