Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires and Layoffs
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
Oregon Health & Science University, GE set up state’s first virtual ICU program
The academic medical center collaborated with GE Healthcare to set up the first virtual intensive care unit program in the state, which will help the organization extend its critical care expertise across rural areas and manage bed capacity amid climbing Covid-19 cases.
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Telemedicine at work: Oregon docs save baby’s life
The future of healthcare is happening now in Oregon. When a seven-month-old baby had a fever over 102 and a rash, doctors at a small hospital in rural Oregon used telemedicine to connect to Oregon Heath and Science University. She was eventually diagnosed with a serious bacterial infection. The decision? To fly the child to the Portland, […]
Nike co-founder issues a $500M challenge to OHSU’s Knight Cancer Institute
If the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University can raise $500 million over the next two years, Nike co-founder and chairman Phil Knight has pledged to match it, kickstarting a 10-year, $1 billion cancer research initiative. But if the university can’t raise the money, it gets nothing from Knight. That was the […]
Oregon picks 33 criteria to measure health as part of $2B healthcare reform experiment
The Obama Administration gave Oregon almost $2 billion to come up with its own system to coordinate care better. The idea is to get doctors, nurses, hospitals and other caregivers to work together -- and get paid well -- to keep people healthy and to get rid of wasteful, unnecessary care. The federal dollars will go to the providers who do a good job, so first the state had to figure out what constitutes good coordinated care.