Twelve hospitals and health systems recently posted job listings seeking revenue cycle vice presidents. Note: This is not an exhaustive list. Listings were compiled from job-seeker sites. 1. Boston Children’s Hospital seeks vice president of revenue cycle operations. 2. Carewell…
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King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services’ planned acquisition of Talkspace will create the industry’s first end-to-end continuum of behavioral health services, UHS CEO Marc Miller said during the system’s April 28 first-quarter earnings call. “Talkspace’s successful payer-driven business model…
Pointcore Helps a Large Health System Turn Disconnected Facilities Data into Systemwide Insight
As OSF HealthCare grew and evolved, so did the complexity of managing facilities operations across the system. Leadership needed a modern and consistent way to understand performance, identify risks and make informed decisions at scale. OSF turned to Pointcore to…
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Health systems are updating their EHR upgrade strategies amid the shift to AI and rapid technological evolution in healthcare, executives told Becker’s. IT leaders refresh their EHRs as little as annually to as much as quarterly, based on what their…
Hospital and health system CEOs often enter their roles with strategic assumptions about what drives success. In practice, those assumptions are tested — and sometimes, leaders say, need to be reconsidered. Becker’s asked three leaders — Justin Harris, CEO of…
Stu Simpson has been named assistant CFO of HCA HealthONE Sky Ridge in Lone Tree, Colo., according to an April 27 LinkedIn post. The hospital is part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare’s Denver-based HCA HealthONE. Prior to his new role,…