Category: ROOT

Hackensack’s Epic EHR move to Google will create improved interoperability

Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health is looking to provide a huge opportunity for discoveries that can improve patient care and interoperability with its ongoing collaboration with Google Cloud, Kash Patel, executive vice president and chief d…

What BQ.1 dominance means for Evusheld, bebtelovimab

With omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 accounting for more than half of COVID-19 cases, at least two therapies are on the cusp of losing their mainstay status in the COVID-19 drug market. 

Oregon nurses urge district attorney to investigate Providence for alleged wage theft

The Oregon Nurses Association has asked the Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt to investigate Providence for alleged ongoing wage theft against front-line nurses and other healthcare workers. 

$7.4M paid for San Diego medical office building

Loma Starr, a two-building office and medical office property in San Diego, was sold for $7.4 million, REBusiness Online reported Nov. 28.

Children’s Minnesota’s digital transformation is helping ‘serve more patients in new ways,’ CFO says

Hospitals and health systems across the country are doubling down on digital transformation efforts by creating new tools and launching innovative programs to improve workflows, boost efficiency and better serve patients where they are.

Phoenix Children’s reports $120M loss even as revenues stay strong

Phoenix Children’s Hospital reported a nine-month loss of $120.5 million even as its revenues stayed robust and contributed to an overall positive operating income of $88 million. The overall decline was a result of investment challenges that resulted …

What ASCs are doing instead of consolidating

The healthcare industry is increasingly consolidating as operation costs soar — physicians are migrating to employed models and private practices are being bought up by larger entities. 

Tennessee ASC snags orthopedic accreditation

Jackson, Tenn.-based Physicians Surgery Center is the first ASC in the state to achieve Advanced Orthopaedic Certification from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, the center said in a release emailed to Becker’s Nov. 20.

UCSD accused of ignoring anesthesiologist's fentanyl abuse

A recent suit was filed against UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest, Calif., accusing an anesthesiologist and Gerard Manecke Jr., MD, former chief of anesthesiology, among others, of not giving a patient enough anesthesia and then falsifying offic…

$28M joint venture ASC proposed in North Carolina

Three surgery center LLCs have submitted a certificate of need application for a $28.3 million ASC in Pinehurst, N.C., The Pilot reported Nov. 25.