Intermountain Healthcare news and information

Insurers looking to offer low-cost options on the new health insurance exchanges are knitting together narrow provider networks that are willing to offer lower prices in exchange for the guaranteed volume that comes with serving an entire patient population. But that raises thorny questions for...
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Modern Healthcare's editorial webinar“Cost Saving in Device Procurement: Innovative Strategies on Physician Preference Items” explored...
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Intermountain Healthcare has signed a deal to adopt Cerner's clinical and financial healthcare information technology software systems across its entire network of 22 hospitals and 185 clinics. Terms of the contract were not announced.
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Federal officials for more than a decade have let hospitals charge Medicare varying rates for certain emergency department overhead and staffing costs called “facility” fees—a controversial policy some critics believe invites overcharges.
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The Medical Device Innovation Consortium in Minneapolis named William Murray president and CEO, effective Aug. 12. MDIC is a public-private partnership between the Food and Drug Administration and the medical device industry. Murray, 52, most recently served as CEO of Envoy Medical, which...
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Hospitals have long struggled to break through the veil of opaque pricing on implantable medical devices, especially in the cardiovascular and orthopedic specialties. This webinar will explore best practices at systems that are leading the way on aligning the interests of physicians and hospitals...
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Banner Health hired Ryan Smith as senior VP and chief information officer. Smith, now assistant VP of IT operations at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, begins the job at Phoenix-based Banner on Oct. 1, succeeding retiring CIO Mike Warden.
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The turnaround in the financial markets—and an overall improving economy—means charitable giving has improved at hospitals at a time when their investment portfolios are also seeing greater returns.
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Deloitte has named Brett Davis general manager of its newly launched Deloitte Health Informatics, which provides advanced analytics services and products to healthcare providers, researchers and medical manufacturers.
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Don't look for Intermountain Healthcare, the Utah health system widely cited for its efficiency and quality, to be among the hospitals and medical groups that are testing ACOs.
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