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| Emory Healthcare names Johns Hopkins exec as CEO | | Monday, December 14, 2015 5:53 PM | |
| | Dr. Jonathan S. Lewin, the new CEO at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, brings management experience from Johns Hopkins and 20 patents as a researcher and clinician. Lewin currently is a senior VP at Johns Hopkins Medicine. |
| Ohio's HealthSpan drops Kaiser model, ACA policies | | Monday, December 14, 2015 3:30 PM | |
| | HealthSpan, the insurance arm of Catholic health system Mercy Health, is getting rid of its medical group and halting sales of Affordable Care Act policies just two years after acquiring Kaiser Permanente's Ohio subsidiary. |
| Daughters of Charity finally closes on a deal | | Monday, December 14, 2015 2:00 PM | |
| | Daughters of Charity Health System's fraught search for a buyer has ended. BlueMountain Capital Management has closed on a deal for the failing six-hospital system, now named Verity Health System. |
| University of Washington Medicine reaches $750,000 HIPAA settlement | | Monday, December 14, 2015 1:41 PM | |
| | The steady stream of such settlements illustrates HHS' concern over providers' compliance with the security provisions of HIPAA, experts say. HHS' Office for Civil Rights said this newest settlement shows the need for organizationwide risk analyses. |
| Walgreens queried about Catholic hospital running in-store clinics | | Monday, December 14, 2015 12:45 PM | |
| | Nineteen groups led by the American Civil Liberties Union have sent a letter to the Walgreens drugstore chain expressing concerns about the company's plans to have a Catholic hospital run in-store health clinics in Washington state and Oregon. |
| Bipartisan bill could give ASC docs EHR incentive payments | | Monday, December 14, 2015 12:01 PM | |
| | Physicians are eligible for a piece of the $30 billion EHR incentive pie if they performed at least half of their outpatient procedures in a setting with a certified EHR. But ASCs were excluded from EHR incentive payments. As a consequence, many of... |
| Partners HealthCare's annual revenue rebounds in 2015 | | Monday, December 14, 2015 11:42 AM | |
| | Despite a harsh winter and the implementation of a new electronic health-record system, Partners HealthCare in Boston reported revenue of $11.7 billion in fiscal 2015, a 7% uptick from last year. |
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