Dignity Health news and information

Dignity Health, a large and expanding health system based in San Francisco, has formed a revenue cycle management company in a joint venture with Optum, a subsidiary of insurer UnitedHealth Group.
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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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The annual Health 2.0 Conference is wrapping up in Santa Clara, Calif., today, and with it come several launches worth noting.
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U.S. HealthWorks named Dr. Mark Pucek as chief medical officer and promoted Dr. Bernyce Peplowski to the newly created position of senior VP for national medical policy and innovation.
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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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Not surprisingly, the leaders of healthcare's megahospital systems were once again well-represented on Modern Healthcare's annual ranking of 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare. But others, coming from systems...
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UnitedHealthcare and about 50 hospitals say they will conduct research comparing some of the costliest medical devices and then use that data to inform their purchasing decisions.
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Hospitals participating in HHS' Partnership for Patients campaign have made significant progress in reducing patient harm, but much work still remains to be done, according to the leaders of the $1 billion patient-safety initiative.
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The Cleveland Clinic is the latest hospital system to form a joint venture that aims to address the rising costs of hip and knee implants, stents and other pricey physician preference items.
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Aggressive efforts to squeeze expenses continue at hospitals and health systems in 2012. A strategy begun in response to the Great Recession, a weak economic recovery and the anticipation of new strains on operations from healthcare reform continues to force hospital executives to slash...
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