Hospitals Archives

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    The Federal Communications Commission has set a date for healthcare providers to submit applications for the second round of the COVID-19…

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    Medical equipment and supply manufacturer Medline Industries is exploring a potential sale valued as high as $30 billion, The Wall…

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    Physicians experienced extreme income volatility in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with some doctors indicating there were months where they had…

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    The Biden administration is proposing to repeal Trump-era regulations that restricted what clinicians in federally funded family planning clinics can tell…

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    Welcome to this week’s Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. Please submit the good news—or the bad—from your…

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    The digital health technology sector is growing rapidly, spurred on by the shift to virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic.…

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    Intermountain Healthcare has agreed to purchase medical air transport company Classic Air Medical in a move to reinforce its rural…

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    Boston-based Cohere Health has scored $36 million in its second round of funding less than a year after it launched.…

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    Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, patients were frustrated with how providers communicated with them, often requiring them to play phone tag,…

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    Artificial intelligence startup Olive has entered the operating room with the acquisition of Empiric Health. Salt Lake City-based Empiric Health…

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    The White House announced it will not buy more shots of Pfizer or Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines after a federal recommendation…

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    The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed major logistical challenges in healthcare as collecting and sharing medical data is still often a…

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    New study data suggest that the variant of COVID-19 originating in the United Kingdom does not cause more severe illness…

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    The House overwhelmingly passed legislation to pause cuts to Medicare payments to help providers still facing financial challenges due to…

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    Mayo Clinic has launched a new initiative to collect and analyze patient data from remote monitoring devices and diagnostic tools…

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    Rare cases of blood clots linked with Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine look similar to reports of clotting in people…

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    Prisma Health and LifePoint Health have nixed a transaction involving three South Carolina hospitals and a free-standing emergency room due…

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    Health tech giant Nvidia is collaborating with AstraZeneca and the University of Florida’s academic health center, UF Health, on new artificial…

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    A new study found that racial and ethnic minority groups had a higher proportion of COVID-19 hospitalizations from March to…

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    Microsoft plans to buy speech recognition company Nuance Communications for $19.7 billion to expand its reach into healthcare. The software…

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    Hospitals and health systems had a smaller number of deals in the first quarter of the year compared to 2020,…

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    More than 3,600 U.S. health care workers perished in the first year of the pandemic, according to “Lost on the…

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    A startup is working with major academic medical centers to study whether a therapeutic video game can help patients suffering…

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    Nonprofit hospitals spent less on charity care for the uninsured compared to for-profit and government hospitals, a new study found. The…

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    MVP Health Care and the University of Vermont Health Network are launching a joint Medicare Advantage plan. MVP, a nonprofit…

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    Women’s health startup Tia launched in 2017 with a focus on creating a modern medical home for women by integrating…

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    Following its acquisition of video conferencing platform BlueJeans last year, Verizon has built out a telehealth platform for providers. Many hospitals…

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    Virtual reality (VR) technology is emerging as one of the more promising, and nonaddictive, pain management tools. Los Angeles-based AppliedVR…

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    COVID-19 forced providers to think about the balance between protecting patients from unnecessary exposure while ensuring they could still access…

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    The Department of Health and Human Services appears to have begun conducting an outlier analysis on its reimbursement to healthcare…

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    In its first major move into healthcare, Mastercard is teaming up with b.well Connected Health to launch a digital solution…

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    It takes a certain type of doctor to be drawn toward critical care. Shifts in the ICU are grueling and…

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    The American Medical Association innovation subsidiary Health2047 has spun off a company that uses personalized medicine to fight obesity. Phenomix…

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    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is the second major health system to sign on with Google to pilot its controversial clinical…

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    The Federal Communications Commission this week unanimously approved a process for distributing nearly $250 million to help healthcare providers deliver…

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    SOC Telemed has acquired Access Physicians to solidify its market position in the acute care telehealth space. The cash and…

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    In a few days, a new regulation goes into effect that will give patients unprecedented access to their healthcare information…

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    Starting next week, a new regulation goes into effect that will give patients easier access to their digital health records through…

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    Advantia Health has opened a new flagship health practice in Washington, D.C. that takes a page from the hospitality industry. The…

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    Two years after teaming up to boost data sharing and ease administrative headaches, Epic and Humana are ramping up their…

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    As some countries and private companies have already begun experimenting with so-called “vaccine passports,” it’s likely digital vaccine credentials will…

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    Cleveland Clinic and IBM have inked a 10-year partnership to leverage high-performance computing, artificial intelligence and quantum computing technologies to accelerate…

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    A new study found strong evidence mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were highly effective in preventing infections among healthcare personnel and other…

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    In the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the shift to digital health and drove unprecedented investments in the health…

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    It may seem too good to be true to have an affordable health benefits plan that actually contains cost and…

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    Telehealth giant Amwell saw a massive jump in virtual visits during the COVID-19 pandemic, tallying up 5.9 million visits in 2020, up…

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    Ransomware attacks cost the healthcare industry $20.8 billion in downtime in 2020, which is double the number from 2019, according…

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    The Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation Thursday to extend a pause on Medicare payment cuts through 2021, a major demand from…

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    Tech’s biggest chief executives faced sharp criticism from members of Congress Thursday about how their companies are handling misinformation about…

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    Healthcare “map maker” Komodo Health netted $220 million in new funding to build out its data analytics platform for healthcare and life…

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