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UAMS partners with Amedisys, Contessa for at-home care

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences partnered with Baton Rouge, La.-based Amedisys and Nashville, Tenn.-based Contessa Health to create a new care at-home option for Central Arkansas.

Mayo Clinic Platform boss calls for ‘balance between crazy and cautious’ in healthcare AI

While fearless innovation and challenging the status quo are crucial to advancing healthcare, “there is such a thing as too much unconventional thinking,” John Halamka, MD, president of Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote recently.

For $392M, Walgreens to fully acquire CareCentrix

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. 

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: