August 27, 2013 Gabriel Perna
news
The Charlotte, N.C.-based Premier Healthcare Alliance, a collection of 2,900 U.S. community hospitals and 100,000 alternate sites of care which has historically provided group purchasing services, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO), the company announced in a public statement.
August 26, 2013 Mark Hagland
news
The Chicago-based Merge Healthcare, a leading vendor in the imaging informatics space, announced that Michael W. Ferro, Jr. had resigned as chairman of the board and as a director, effectively immediately. The move came just two weeks after CEO Jeffery Surges resigned on Aug. 9.
August 23, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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Community Health Systems, a Nashville-based nationwide operator of acute-care hospitals, and the Cleveland Clinic, a nonprofit multi specialty academic medical center, are joining up to buy Akron General Health System under the umbrella of a joint subsidiary, the trio of providers announced this week.
August 22, 2013 Gabriel Perna
news
Kaiser Permanente, the nationwide integrated healthcare provider and payer based out of Oakland, has officially opened a new healthcare information technology center in Greenwood Village, Colo.
August 20, 2013 David Raths
article
Intermountain Healthcare has opened a Healthcare Transformation Lab in Salt Lake City, where it is partnering with several information technology companies, including Xi3, Intel and Dell. Initiatives under way include a “Patient Room of the Future,” featuring advanced patient-monitoring technologies.
August 15, 2013 Gabriel Perna
news
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is using the ECRI Institute, a non-profit applied scientific research organization, to maintain and enhance publicly accessible, searchable databases of summaries of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and healthcare quality measures.
August 12, 2013 Gabriel Perna
news
Medtronic, a Minneapolis medical device company, has acquired Cardiocom, a privately held developer of integrated telehealth and chronic disease management patient services, for $200 million, the company announced this week.
August 12, 2013 Gabriel Perna
article
A busy week of health IT policy and politics played out during the first week of August. For Washington observers, the week was a perfect mix of relaxed Hill Staff, new policy recommendations and a changing of the guard at ONC.
August 9, 2013 Gabriel Perna
blog
One of the most exciting moments in sports is in horse racing, when a horse makes a fantastic surge towards the end providing a photo finish. In a crowded EHR vendor market, is one vendor making a turnaround that could provide similar intrigue?
August 8, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
news
The global healthcare IT outsourcing market is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.6 percent, to reach $50.4 billion by 2018, up from $35 billion in 2013, according to a new RnR Market Research report.
August 7, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
news
Budget constraints and skill set gaps are the main challenges that prevent healthcare organizations from being able to support dedicated analytics and business intelligence teams, according to a new survey from CIC Advisory, a clinician-led healthcare informatics consulting firm.
August 5, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
news
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has granted $3 million to six health center networks to improve the quality of care through implementation and adoption of health information technology.
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