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.
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
CarePoint Health, a three-hospital health system in New Jersey, recently filed a lawsuit against RWJBarnabas Health, the largest acute care provider in the state. The complaint alleged that RWJBarnabas conspired with real estate investors, New Jersey's largest payer and government officials to eliminate competition and monopolize acute care services in the state.
This is the third complaint the FTC filed against proposed hospital mergers so far this year.
The New Jersey-based health system's culturally nuanced social determinants of health program will screen all patients for social and behavioral factors that impact their health, in the hopes of improving outcomes and encouraging appropriate use of healthcare services.
Looking ahead to next year, WellSheet has its first major pilot using Cerner with RWJBarnabas Health — a 10,000 doctor health system, starting in January.
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.