The Pennsylvania Department of Health confirmed a fourth measles-associated death Sept. 15, an unvaccinated 18-year-old who lived in Mifflin County. The Mifflin County coroner’s office said the cause of death was acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a rare and severe neurological complication…
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Corpus Christi, Texas-based Driscoll Health System has promoted Shane Casady to COO. In his new role, Mr. Casady will lead operations across the pediatric health system’s two hospitals, Driscoll Health Plan and specialty centers and clinics across South Texas, according…
Ville Platte, La.-based Mercy Regional Medical Center has signed a prime vendor agreement with Medline for medical-surgical products and distribution services. Medline will supply commodity items, urology products and distribution services to support the health system’s ordering and delivery of…
Mayo Clinic and Thermo Fisher Scientific have launched Precure, a joint venture designed to detect biological signs of disease before patients develop symptoms, according to a news release shared with Becker’s. Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic, will serve as majority owner…
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Brentwood, Tenn.-based Quorum Health has selected Oracle to standardize its clinical, financial and operational technology. Building on its existing use of Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, Quorum will adopt Oracle Health EHR, Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent, Oracle Health Patient Accounting,…
Medicare Advantage now covers more than 51% of eligible beneficiaries, but for a growing number of health systems, participating in the program has become a lose-lose proposition: stay in and absorb mounting losses, or exit and hand competitors an enrollment…
El Dorado Springs, Mo.-based Cedar County Memorial Hospital is working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and external forensic experts to investigate an August IT disruption that left its Meditech EHR offline for two weeks. The hospital voluntarily shut down…
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Managing utilization review for a single hospital is demanding enough. Dr. Maliha Iqbal, MD, SFHM, CHCQM-PHYADV, ACPA-C, does it for 11 — as the sole physician advisor at Beacon Health System. Despite her caseload doubling after a merger, she closed…