The Bipartisan Policy Center's Task Force on Delivery System Reform and Health IT has released recommendations to improve healthcare quality and reduce costs, according to a Bipartisan Policy Center news release.
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Marshall Browning Hospital in Du Quoin, Ill., has selected Edwin Gast as CEO, according to a Marshall Browning news release.
Jon Smiley, CEO of Sunnyside (Wash.) Community Hospital, will retire March 1, according to a Yakima Harold report.
General Electric plans to discontinue its ambulatory electronic health record product, GE Centricity Advance EHR, starting June 30, according to an InformationWeek report.
From 2010-2011, 56 percent of Merritt Hawkins' search assignments were for hospitals, according to the Merritt Hawkins 2011 Review of Physician Recruiting Incentives.
Roger Forgey has been named the new president and CEO of Erlanger at Hutcheson Medical Center in Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga., according to a Rome News-Tribune report.
Some hospitals refer patients and families to malpractice attorneys — an arrangement some experts find to be an inherent conflict of interest, according to a Baltimore Sun report.
Allen Golson, the recently appointed CEO of Ocala (Fla.) Health System was killed in a plane crash Friday, according to an Ocala Star-Banner report.
The Rural Assistance Center and the National Rural Health Reference Center have designed an online toolkit to help rural providers locate resources on HIT-related topics, according to a Rural Assistance Center news release.
Brentwood, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems and Jackson, Tenn.-based West Tennessee Healthcare have come to a verbal agreement that would allow CHS-owned Regional Hospital of Jackson (Tenn.) to negotiate in-network contracts with commercial payors if CHS drops its pursuit of passing…