Care Coordination

Denver Health is repurposing an old building into apartments for homeless patients transitioning out of the hospital, according to USA Today. 

Lakewood (Calif.) Regional Medical Center has borrowed a concept from Disneyland to ensure quicker access to care for patients being transferred into the facility from urgent care centers or physicians' offices.

The ACA is linked to improving health outcomes, The Washington Post reports.

Boston Children's Hospital received $100,000 from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation to create a protocol for primary care providers treating pediatric patients with nicotine addiction from vaping, according to Mass Live.

With more than half of U.S. hospitals facing 30-day readmission penalties in fiscal year 2019, the hospital industry stands to lose an estimated $566 million, Kaiser Health News reported.

John Murphy, MD, the CEO of Nuvance Health, a seven-hospital health system in New York and Connecticut, discusses how innovation drives population health management and care delivery for the future.

The Charlottesville-based University of Virginia opened a new center dedicated to advancing innovative, data-driven solutions to community issues such as public health and infrastructure.

After Arizona Medicaid regulation changes allowed ride-sharing companies to provide nonemergency transportation, 15 percent of Medicaid rides involved Uber and Lyft this summer, according to Kaiser Health News. 

A House subcommittee sent letters to four e-cigarette companies asking them to stop advertising their products, according to CNBC.

Hundreds of people across the country have been sickened by a severe lung illness linked to vaping. As a result, health officials, retailers and states have been working to better regulate the sale of e-cigarettes until the FDA understands the…