CMS on Dec. 15 published 24 quality and efficiency measures under consideration for adoption in Medicare programs. HHS employs this pre-rulemaking process to decide on measures for Medicare programs and releases a public list of the pitched measures each year.…
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Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth can begin with the first phase of a planned hospital construction in Weaverville, N.C., after the North Carolina Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to the project. With the court declining Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health’s…
Oracle’s new world headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., will cost $4.5 billion, the Nashville Business Journal reported. The price tag for the 80-acre project with 2.7 million square feet of building space was previously estimated to be $1.2 billion and $2…
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has invested in a virtual care startup focused on chronic pain relief. Here are five things to know from the Dec. 9 news release: 1. Mayo Clinic participated in an oversubscribed $11 million series A financing…
Laura Bruno, controller and CFO of Brattleboro (Vt.) Memorial Hospital, exited her role Dec. 12. The move comes in the wake of the board saying in late November that the hospital’s president and CEO, Christopher Dougherty, would not be returning…
Camden, N.J.-based Cooper University Health Care has saved time and reduced clinician burnout with Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot ambient AI scribe. Here are five takeaways from a Dec. 15 Microsoft news release: 1. The AI clinical documentation tool is saving Cooper…
Detroit remains the neediest city in the U.S., largely because it has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 9.1%, according to a Dec. 15 analysis from personal finance website WalletHub. The city also ranked No. 1 in WalletHub’s…
Patient experience is no longer a “nice to have” — it’s a core driver of growth, retention and reimbursement. Yet many health systems are falling short due to one persistent barrier: data that is fragmented, inaccurate or untrusted. To meet…
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Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health completed a systemwide Epic transition Sept. 6, consolidating eight EHR systems across its 33 hospitals into one platform. Now three months in, the transition has stabilized, with improved operational and revenue cycle performance as the…
Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health has appointed Jenni Friedly, BSN, chief operating officer, effective immediately. Three things to know: 1. Ms. Friedly most recently served as market president of UnityPoint Health-Waterloo (Iowa) and brings 16 years of operational leadership experience…