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Best Buy expands push into home healthcare with investment in remote patient monitoring firm

Best Buy has made an initial investment in remote patient monitoring company Coeus h3c as the tech retailer looks to expand in the home healthcare market.

Turquoise Health launches price transparency tool

Health technology company Turquoise Health has launched a price transparency product that it says allows anyone to request and receive precise searches from both hospital and payer rates data warehouse. 

Northwell Health appoints Dr. Dawnette Lewis maternal health center director

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health named Dawnette Lewis, MD, director of its Center for Maternal Health.

New Mount Sinai database aims to examine racial segregation, patient outcomes

New York City-based Mount Sinai is launching a study of 15 million ambulatory patient cases to determine how segregation of healthcare affects patient outcomes. 

Kentucky hospital names VP of operations

Owensboro (Ky.) Health Regional Hospital has named Chris Sale vice president of operations. 

Physician cuts will create ‘immediate financial instability’: 4 thoughts on physician pay

Medicare’s physician fee schedule final rule will reduce the conversion factor by 4.48 percent to $33.06 — four physician leaders joined Becker’s to discuss how these pay cuts will affect healthcare.

Tennessee health system to develop 2 clinical insight tools for its EHR

Williamson Medical Center has partnered with health tech company EvidenceCare to develop two decision support tools within its Meditech EHR system. 

New York hospital to begin $20M emergency department expansion

Riverhead, N.Y.-based Peconic Bay Medical Center will set off on a $20 million expansion of its emergency department, Riverhead Local reported Nov. 14.

An Ohio city and county approved a $240M medical debt relief plan. What’s next?

RIP Medical Debt CEO Allison Sesso said she is unsure when a contract with Toledo, Ohio, and Lucas County, Ohio, will be signed, but it expects it to move quickly, CBS affiliate WTOL reported Nov. 14.  

3 factors boosting physicians’ willingness to adopt value-based care

A July 2022 Bain US Frontline of Healthcare Survey found that about 80 percent of physicians are interested in value-based care arrangements, but that interest decreases as the risk to the provider increases.