Systems news and information

A group of large employers including retail giants Wal-Mart Stores and Lowe's Cos. announced they will offer their employees coverage for hip and knee implant procedures with no cost-sharing if they receive the procedures at one of four previously selected hospital systems.
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John Holland will join LHP Hospital Group as CEO on Oct. 24, succeeding Dan Moen.
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Stephen Nuckolls, CEO of Coastal Carolina Health Care, New Bern, N.C., shared some lessons at the Medical Group Management Association annual conference yesterday from his organization's experience in running a Medicare accountable care organization.
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Full-service hospital operators long have viewed specialty providers with suspicion. But they increasingly are adopting the philosophy of, “If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.”
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Dr. Patrick Conway was named deputy administrator for innovation and quality at the CMS and director of the CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Conway served in the director position on an interim basis after the departure of Dr. Richard Gilfillan. Conway, who joined the...
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There has been a lot of complaining lately about the lack of interoperability in healthcare information technology and how the inability of computers to communicate with each other impedes organizing population health-improvement systems. But two Southern California organizations that just...
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Anthony “Tony” Armada is leaving Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in suburban Chicago to become CEO of Swedish Health Services, the largest health system in Seattle.
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MemorialCare Health System and UC Irvine Health said Wednesday they will together open a string of primary-care health centers in Southern California.
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Four months after Catholic Health Initiatives acquired St. Luke's Episcopal Health System from the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, St. Luke's President and CEO David Fine announced that he will become president of a national research institute operated by Catholic Health Initiatives.
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Tenet Healthcare Corp., Dallas, has completed its $1.8 billion acquisition of Vanguard Health Systems, Nashville.
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