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| Tri-City CEO on the chopping block | | Monday, March 14, 2016 3:45 PM | |
| | Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside, Calif., will decide Thursday whether to part ways with CEO Tim Moran less than two years after hiring him and just a few weeks after lauding his role in spearheading a partnership with UC San Diego Health. |
| ACA setbacks dampen Intermountain's finances | | Monday, March 14, 2016 3:43 PM | |
| | The political division over Medicaid expansion and a nearly $400 million shortfall tied to the Affordable Care Act's risk-corridor program ate into the bottom line last year at Intermountain Healthcare, the integrated system that dominates Utah. |
| Contract labor soars at Trinity Health | | Monday, March 14, 2016 1:28 PM | |
| | Soaring labor costs cut into Trinity Health's operating gains during the final six months of 2015. Contract labor costs at the Livonia, Mich.-based system nearly doubled to $100.4 million from $51 million during the prior year's same six-month... |
| HealthSpot's assets are up for sale | | Monday, March 14, 2016 12:34 PM | |
| | The trustee in charge of the bankrupt telemedicine company "is accepting offers to purchase the assets of HealthSpot Inc.," according to a news release issued by the trustee, Myron Terlecky, a Columbus lawyer. |
| FDA will review first-ever dissolving heart stent | | Monday, March 14, 2016 12:28 PM | |
| | A disappearing medical implant will get a closer look from the Food and Drug Administration this week. The FDA meets on Tuesday to review Abbott Laboratories' first-of-a-kind heart stent that dissolves into the body after helping to clear... |
| Blog: 'Difficult' patients more likely to be misdiagnosed | | Monday, March 14, 2016 12:05 PM | |
| | Medical residents dealing with "difficult" patients were 42% more likely to get the diagnosis of a complex medical case wrong and 6% more likely to get it wrong on simpler cases, found a study published in BMJ Quality & Safety, a journal... |
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