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Precision for Medicine, which provides specialized services and infrastructure to support life science companies and next generation medical products, has named Eric Perakslis senior adviser for bioinformatics and information technology.
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In the healthcare environment of the future, quality outcomes and population management, both of which will be tied to reimbursement, will be key issues for healthcare executives to stay on top of. Technology used to harness, interpret, coordinate and optimize data created by patients' different...
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Shareholders of Health Management Associates have voted to elect eight new directors to the chain's board, activist investor Glenview Capital Management said.
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The Federal Trade Commission and Phoebe Putney Health System are in settlement talks to resolve a bitterly disputed court battle over a $200 million hospital acquisition in southwest Georgia.
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WebMD Health Corp., which provides health information through online portals, mobile platforms and publications, has appointed David Schlanger CEO and Dr. Steven Zatz president, effective Aug. 11.
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Taken together, the ACA delivery system reforms have significantly shifted the national discussion among healthcare leaders. They are now universally focused on improving quality while lowering costs.
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When voters OK'd a ballot measure intended to limit what El Camino Hospital could pay its executives and managers, the hospital's board worried about the implications for hiring.
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With not-for-profit healthcare systems facing growing scrutiny of their executive compensation, median total pay for the top 25 highest paid CEOs climbed 12% as base salaries grew 3% year over year.
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In the more than a dozen years that Clem Wilkes Jr. has served as a director of Mountain States Health Alliance, the compensation arrangement with the hospital system's chief executive has undergone plenty of changes.
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A Special Feature on the nation's compensation for healthcare executives, selected titles. Source: Sullivan, Cotter and Associates. Published August 12, 2013, p. 24.
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