About a month after acquiring a majority stake in CareCentrix, Walgreens Boots Alliance said Oct. 11 it plans to fully own the home healthcare company for $392 million.
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5-day isolation period inadequate, study finds: 3 COVID-19 updates
Experts are raising concerns over COVID-19 isolation guidelines after a new study showed 80 percent of symptomatic participants who were infected when the omicron BA.1 variant was dominant were still testing positive five days after symptom onset.
Evidence COVID-19 came from nature, not a lab, is ‘overwhelming,’ report says
Evidence mounted suggesting COVID-19 likely spread zoonotically — an animal to human jump — as the debate into the pandemic’s origins flared up again after a new report from an expert panel, Science reported Oct. 10.
Rite Aid, Google Cloud partner to create the ‘modern pharmacy’
Rite Aid will partner with Google Cloud to introduce Google’s Anthos platform to its more than 2,350 pharmacies, the companies said Oct. 11.
Eye ASC opens in Washington, D.C., area
McLean, Va.-based Holzman Solomon Vision Partners is opening an ASC.
The risks of ‘medium COVID’
A plethora of research suggests that the risk of severe health complications is highest in the weeks — not months — after a COVID-19 infection, yet this crucial period is often lumped into the broader term “long COVID-19,” Benjamin Mazer, MD,…
Encompass Health, Piedmont plan to build rehab hospital in Georgia
Birmingham, Ala.-based Encompass Health and Athens-based Piedmont were awarded a certificate of need to build a freestanding inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Athens, Ga.
5 RCM companies launching new services
From expanding capabilities to launching new software, here are five new services launched by revenue cycle management companies that Becker’s has reported since Sept. 20:
Beaumont, Spectrum have new name for combined system
After going by the temporary moniker BHSH System, Beaumont Health and Spectrum Health rolled out a name for their combined system Oct. 11: Corewell Health.
Univ. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences opening urology ASC
Little Rock-based University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is opening a urology ASC as part of its upcoming $20 million Health Specialty Center, Arkansas Business reported Oct. 10.
