By Modern Healthcare | September 06, 2013
| Basic Web
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. FULL STORY »
Healthcare organizations are increasingly outsourcing the role of “chief investment officer” as providers are faced with managing multiple asset pools in a tough economic environment. FULL STORY »
Fauquier Health, a Warrenton, Va.-based not-for-profit health system, and LifePoint Hospitals in Brentwood, Tenn., have signed an agreement to create a joint venture in which the two will own and operate Fauquier Health. FULL STORY »
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, one of the biggest players in the Chicago healthcare market, added the 926 physicians of the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation to the system's ranks. FULL STORY »
Getting patients more involved in taking responsibility for their health is the current quandary for providers. In most healthcare reform scenarios, patient engagement is seen as the key to success. How to achieve it seems mysterious, and most believe that the “unknown” can be solved by... FULL STORY »
Minuteman Health, a not-for-profit, consumer-governed health plan sponsored by Vanguard Health Systems and Tufts Medical Center, said Monday that it received an HMO license and premium rate approval from Massachusetts regulators. FULL STORY »
The Obama administration and a national organization called the Young Invincibles on Monday launched a monthlong video contest to encourage enrollment of uninsured young adults in health plans offered on the state insurance exchanges. FULL STORY »
By Modern Healthcare | August 17, 2013
| Print Magazine
“There are hospitals out there that have been independent for 80 years and they're saying, 'We're going to be independent for the next 100 years.' That's going to be a tall order. As other hospitals consolidate and grow around you, whatever niche you had will vaporize.” FULL STORY »
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