Integration & Physician Issues

During Patient Safety Awareness Week, I reflect on the many outstanding teams I’ve worked with at client sites.

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Indiana added a hospital and two health centers to its Medicare Advantage network March 11.

A recent blog post by LogicStream Health reviews part three of their three-part blog series examining the drug shortage crisis. 

A recent blog post by LogicStream Health reviews part two of their three-part blog series about the drug shortage crisis. 

A recent blog post by ECG Management Consultants breakds down the structure and importance of a clinical effectiveness team within hospitals and health systems. 

A recent press release by TeamHealth announces the acquiriation of Premier Medical P.C. and expands their presence in the Southeast. 

CVS has plans to change its familiar piano on-hold music, much to the delight of one Harvard psychiatrist, whose thoughts on the issue went viral last year, WBUR reports.

Two leaders spearheading a group of more than 40 physicians to split from Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health said a similar situation with a competing health system last year inspired them to make the change, according to The Charlotte Observer.

Cory Scott is the new CEO of Texas Health Aetna, a joint venture launched by Arlington-based Texas Health Resources and Aetna in 2017.

The advisory board created by Norfolk-based Eastern Virginia Medical School in response to a controversy involving racist depictions in its yearbooks said it will not investigate a 1984 yearbook photo involving Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, MD, The Virginian-Pilot reports.