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Walgreens sells 11 VillageMD clinics to Arches Medical Partners
Walgreens has sold 11 VillageMD clinics in Rhode Island to Arches Medical Partners, a Boston-based medical group management company.
Terms of the transaction remain private, Arches said.
WHY THIS MATTERS
Walgreens has been unloading VillageMD primary …
Congress needs to to take action to help hospitals, AHA says
The American Hospital Association is urging Congress to address any statutory constraints that prevent the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Department of Health and Human Services from adequately helping hospitals and other healthcare pro…
New ACO model provides alternative for physicians to stay independent
Accountable Care Organization stakeholders are applauding the capitation payments in the new ACO Primary Care Flex Model but lament that it leaves out high-revenue ACOs.
HIMSS24 Native American Health IT Symposium: ‘Many nations, one record’
ORLANDO – For the first time, the Indian Health Service has a contract to install a new electronic health record connecting tribal communities across 37 states.
The initiative was a massive undertaking involving the National Indian Health Board, triba…
Scammers take advantage of Change cyberattack
Scammers are taking advantage of the Change Healthcare cyberattack to steal credit card information, according to the Minnesota Hospital Association and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.
CFOs need to see the clinical benefits of spending money on digital health solutions
ORLANDO – Health systems are caring for patients during a time of workforce shortages and patient demands for the same convenient options they get online from retailers.
Tech investment must bring value to care delivery
ORLANDO – Digital health experts talked about the state of healthcare investment and what’s needed to close the gap in a fragmented care delivery model.
The future of AI is in collaborating to build foundational models
By Susan Morse, executive editor
ORLANDO – At HIMSS24, the discussion around artificial intelligence has moved from excitement about the potential of AI to help solve healthcare’s biggest challenges to the desire for a solid foundation for implementation.
HIMSS and South Korea sign Memorandum of Understanding
ORLANDO – Hal Wolf, president and CEO, HIMSS and Geun Chan Lim, CEO of Korea Health Information Service, signed a Memorandum of Understanding at HIMSS24 on Tuesday.
The MOU brings a three-year collaborative relationship between HIMSS and the Republic o…
Healthcare leaders are ‘strangled by time’
ORLANDO – Forty percent of C-suite leaders are thinking of leaving their jobs over the next 12 months. In healthcare, this is closer to 75%, said Suneel Gupta, founding CEO of Rise.
This is because CEOs are exhausted, said Gupta, who kicked off the Exe…
