Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires and Layoffs
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions, retirements and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
Redox adds first health system customer with Brigham Health deal in push to expand interoperability
"We’re eager to be better partners to our colleagues at digital health startups and large vendors alike," said Dr. Adam Landman, Brigham and Women’s Hospital CIO.
The Funding Model for Cancer Innovation is Broken — We Can Fix It
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
Partners HealthCare expands life sciences innovation fund to $100M
"If you have a $1.5 billion research operation, how can you most effectively capitalize on the intellectual capital that comes out of all that research?" Partners Healthcare CFO Peter Markell said at the JPM conference. One answer: Early stage venture funding.
Brigham and Women’s tries microblogging for care continuity
A Brigham hospitalist discussed the program Monday at the American Medical Informatics Association annual symposium.
Welcome to the NFL, Dr. Elizabeth Nabel (via Keith Olbermann)
Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, selected as the NFL’s first chief medical and health adviser, got her first hard hit courtesy of Keith Olbermann on the Olbermann program on ESPN. Olbermann on Friday anointed NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft the day’s “World Worst People” for picking Nabel for the job. In […]
The man who shot and killed surgeon Michael Davidson blamed him for his mother’s death
Unfortunately, people can just snap. That’s what seems to have have happened when Stephen Pasceri shot and killed 44-year-old cardiovascular surgeon Michael Davidson at the prestigious Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston on Tuesday. Pasceri, who then killed himself at the hospital following the shooting, was apparently upset about his mother’s death and blamed Davidson […]
Health Executives on Digital Transformation in Healthcare
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.