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MetroHealth System trustees on Wednesday approved spending nearly $26 million on new medical equipment, refurbishing public spaces like waiting rooms and patient units, building information technology infrastructure and setting up a fund to use during facilities emergencies.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Case Western Reserve University has licensed to a Pennsylvania company the right to make and sell three types of electrodes and a control unit used by researchers to do their neuromodulation work.
Philanthropist and arts patron Toby Devan Lewis is giving $625,000 over five years to the MetroHealth System to help patients overcome paralysis and improve their quality of life as they rehabilitate from traumatic injury. The gift will support functional electrical stimulation and art therapy to advance the healing process.
Cardinal Health is laying off a total of 49 workers at its Indianapolis drug distribution center. Meanwhile, Time magazine/CNN report that some are hailing the Dublin, Ohio, company's new CEO, George Barrett, as the restorer of Cardinal's vigor.
MetroHealth System is considering closing the Asia Plaza Health Center's doors by August, moving the services elsewhere, and forcing more than 2,300 patients to change where they see their doctors, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
The MetroHealth System made a dramatic financial turnaround last year, thanks largely to a laser focus on operating efficiencies and new revenue-generating efforts, as well as a recovery in financial markets. The Cuyahoga County-owned hospital ended 2009 with an excess of revenues over expenses of $52.4 million, compared with a mere $641,000 in 2008.
The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine has launched an early stage cancer drug development program and phase-1 clinical trials unit for patients who have solid tumors that have resisted cancer therapies.
Rising demand for charity care and levels of bad patient debt are problems for most hospitals as the nation struggles to pull itself out of the worst economic recession in a generation. However, hospitals that were on sound financial footing -- and those that tightened their belts -- prior to the recession now are rebounding and have even begun hiring again.
The financial health of the MetroHealth System improved dramatically in 2009, turning around from an operating loss to income and beginning to fill jobs again rather than cutting them. MetroHealth also will start the year with some price increases.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Following a year of belt tightening, the Cleveland Clinic has revealed plans to hire 1,800 workers -- from doctors to support staff -- next year, though Cleveland's largest employer lost $62 million in 2008, according to the Plain Dealer. Altogether, the Clinic, University Hospitals and the MetroHealth System in Cleveland plan to hire more than 2,500 workers in 2010.
MetroHealth System has named John F. McInally as chief information officer, filling the shoes long held by Vince Miller, who retired earlier this year.
MetroHealth System and Cleveland Clinic Health System are creating the region's first trauma network, which is expected to begin operating Jan. 1. As the only Level 1 trauma center in Greater Cleveland, MetroHealth will direct the medical operations of the network and its Metro Life Flight emergency medical helicopter service will coordinate patient transport.
MetroHealth System employees and leaders are spending much of today celebrating the 10th birthday of their electronic medical record system, called Epic. Lauded by The Obama administration for its potential to lower cost and raise the quality of care in the nation's health care system, health information technology like Epic has yet to fulfill that promise at MetroHealth.
The MetroHealth System is expecting a $20 million surplus this year -- which, though laudable in a tough revenue environment, is a "thimbleful in the ocean, in terms of what we really need if we're going to be able to sustain the kind of growth and vitality that we want this system to represent," trustee Donna Kelly Rego said during a late afternoon board meeting on Wednesday.