| Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare | Why the feds block some hospital marriages—and bless others | | | It's been five months since federal anti-trust regulators threw cold water on the marriage of Advocate Health Care and NorthShore University HealthSystem. Will Presence Health and Ascension, respectively the largest Catholic hospital systems in... |
| Healthcare organizations ask CMS to harmonize EHR requirements | | Tuesday, August 22, 2017 2:00 PM | |
| | In comments on a proposed MACRA rule, healthcare organizations said they were happy that the CMS eased EHR requirements for the 2018 performance year, but they still want greater flexibility in which EHRs they could use. |
| Ascension to acquire Presence Health | | Tuesday, August 22, 2017 2:00 PM | |
| | The deal would combine Presence Health, the largest Catholic health system in Illinois, with the nation's largest not-for-profit hospital company. |
| CliniComp sues to stop VA-Cerner contract | | Tuesday, August 22, 2017 1:00 PM | |
| | CliniComp, an EHR vendor that supplies software to the VA and Defense Department, says it might have been considered for the contract had the VA conducted open and competitive bidding. |
| Northwestern doubles down on neurology | | Tuesday, August 22, 2017 12:00 PM | |
| | Neurology is a particularly lucrative line of business since the specialty is procedure-heavy, and Medicare and commercial insurers pay well for those procedures. Investing in neurology could help providers' bottom lines and move them up in national... |
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