Fairview Health Services turned a $315 million annual loss into a nearly $600 million turnaround in just two years. At the AHA Leadership Summit, CEO James Hereford broke down the strategy behind the comeback, from workforce redesign to frontline-driven process fixes.
As healthcare affordability becomes a national crisis, consumers have come to expect the ease, convenience and speed that they get from online commerce. James Hereford delivered the opening keynote speech at the MedCity INVEST Digital Health conference.
Healthcare payments are no longer about transactions. It’s about controlling the revenue cycle. And increasingly, that control is not sitting with ISOs.
Proteus' new oral oncology drug is a digital version of capecitabine, a common chemotherapy medication often used to treat breast and gastrointestinal cancers.
The virtual care platform is intended to make it possible to do a remote diagnosis of chronic conditions and speed up interventions by doctors.
Minnesota-based telehealth startup Zipnosis said it received an undisclosed capital investment from Fairview Health Services that will help the company expand its SaaS diagnosis and treatment option for minor health conditions. As part of the agreement, Fairview, one of the largest not-for-profit systems in the state, will have a member on the Zipnosis board. The […]
When you hear something often enough from unrelated sources, you tend to believe it. And that is the situation I find myself in with North Dakota healthcare provider Sanford Health’s supposed interest in expanding its footprint to the Twin Cities. Three sources, who I bet don’t even know one another, are saying that Sanford Health […]
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States may be wrangling over how to design a health insurance exchange that will allow them to fulfill the individual mandate of the healthcare reform law, but private health entities are already forging ahead with new offerings for individuals. Minnesota-based health insurer Medica and health provider Fairview Health Services announced that starting April 1, they […]
It seems like just yesterday the Minnesota Nurses Association packed up the picket signs and cut a deal with six hospital chains in the Twin Cities for a new contract. Within the last few days, the University of Minnesota has launched efforts to fund two major hospital projects in Minneapolis. Wasn't it Fairview and Children's Hospital that argued they couldn't afford big raises or the staffing ratio plans demanded by the nurses during the strike?
Twin Cities hospitals late Tuesday offered a revised contract proposal to the nurses union, which promptly rejected it, setting the stage for a protracted strike set for next week. In an e-mail, spokeswoman Maureen Schriner said the hospitals, which include Allina, Children’s Hospital, Park Nicollet, Fairview, North Memorial and HealthEast, offered to drop cuts to […]
University Hospitals and Summa Health System in Ohio, and Fairview Health Services in Minnesota are among 19 members of an accountable care organization collaborative launched today by healthcare alliance Premier Inc. The “implementation” collaborative to which these hospitals belong is one of two being started by Premier, a hospital-owned company in Charlotte, North Carolina, that […]
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