Banner Health news and information

Population health is more than a buzzword. The nation is experiencing an obesity epidemic, the continued ill effects of smoking and environmental pollution, and the social stresses of a lingering economic downturn. The nation's public health authorities...
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DaVita HealthCare Partners, Denver, is expanding its multispecialty medical group operations into a fifth state with the acquisition of Arizona Integrated Physicians.
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Premier's planned IPO and reorganization is designed to boost its capacity to compete in the emerging data analytics and consulting market at a time when some systems are turning away from GPOs.
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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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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 spreading obesity epidemic, greater intensity of medical care and greater prevalence of chronic disease contributed the most to health spending growth during the better part of the last quarter century, according to new research released this week.
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More hospitals and docs are signing accountable care contracts that tie payouts to delivering better results at lower costs. Some want insurers to nudge patients toward choices that help them do it.
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Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix has named Dr. Steve Narang its CEO.
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Healthcare competition is starting to heat up in Fort Collins, Colo., with one system breaking ground on a new cancer center and another unveiling plans that include a 192-bed hospital.
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Phoenix Children's Hospital will no longer run the neonatal intensive-care unit at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, Phoenix, the largest hospital in the not-for-profit Banner Health system.
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