Category: ROOT

Cancer Treatment Centers of America switching EHR from Allscripts to Epic

Cancer Treatment Centers of America is transitioning its EHR from Allscripts to Epic following its acquisition in February by Duarte, Calif.-based City of Hope.

Palomar Health leaders face criticism over supporting specific board candidates

Leaders of Escondido, Calif.-based Palomar Health and the founder of the medical group that provides the health system’s physicians are facing criticism for financially supporting campaigns of specific board candidates, Voice of San Diego rep…

Amazon’s $3B Q3 loss: What ASCs need to know 

Amazon reported a $3 billion net loss for the year through the nine months ending Sept. 30

California physicians set strike dates

Members of Valley Physicians Group plan to begin a four-day strike on Nov. 1 in Santa Clara (Calif.) County.

Color Health acquires Mood Lifters, launches new behavioral healthcare solution

Burlingame, Calif.-based Color Health completed the acquisition of Ann Arbor, Mich.-based mental health organization Mood Lifters and also introduced a product expansion to connect people with healthcare resources.

Moving forward with a ‘strategic pause’: How RWJBarnabas scored a perfect 10 on its mid-pandemic EHR implementation

West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health recently received a Epic Gold Stars Level 10 recognition, placing the health system in the top 0.3 percent of all Epic users for its EHR implementation process. This was made possible because of Robert Adamson…

Texas hospital taps VP of operations

Methodist Mansfield (Texas) Medical Center has named Crystal Brown its vice president of operations. 

New law requires salary ranges for New York City job postings

Businesses with at least one New York City-based worker will be required by law to add salary ranges to their job postings, effective Nov. 1, The New York Times reported. 

26 recent hospital, health system executive moves

The following hospital and health system executive moves have been reported by Becker’s Hospital Review since Oct. 21: 

US COVID-19 admissions tick up: 10 CDC findings

COVID-19 hospitalizations increased slightly this week after nearly two months of decline, while omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 — dubbed ‘escape variants’ for their immune evasiveness — continued to gain prevalence nationwide, according to the CDC…