Sutter Health Chief of Digital Health Dr Albert Chan is taking part in a panel discussion about the patient experience at the ViVE conference by HLTH and CHIME in Miami Beach March 6-9. In an interview, he discussed some of the digital health tools they've implemented from behavioral health to maternity care and AI.
The company is buying two urgent care chains in Tuscon, Arizona and Sacramento, California. It now has 83 clinics in 12 states, as it looks to go toe-to-toe with other primary care competitors.
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.
In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, two emergency physicians in Seattle and Sacramento shared what cases they’re seeing and what strategies they’re using to prepare for the virus.
After the California Attorney General brought complaints of anticompetitive behavior against Sutter Health, the Sacramento-based health system will pay $575 million in a settlement.
A whistleblower report alleged Sutter Health submitted unsupported diagnosis codes to inflate the risk scores of its Medicare Advantage beneficiaries.
When San Francisco-based startup Honor was launched in 2015, the need for innovation in the home care industry was clear – and it has only grown starker since. The country’s demographic data shows the issue. By 2035, there will be 78 million people 65 and older in the country and by 2050 it’s estimated that […]
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.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s suit amounts to a giant test case with the potential for national repercussions. If California prevails and is able to tame prices at Northern California’s most powerful, dominant health system, regulators and politicians in other states are likely to follow.
Sutter physicians will use Quartet's technology to help mental health patients access the right specialists. The joint effort will also foster a collaborative environment to ongoing care.
Google Glass is back, and systems like Dignity Health and Sutter Health are making use of it to help providers save valuable time.
Michael and Judith Gaulke, a Silicon Valley couple, has given $20 million to establish the Michael and Judith Gaulke Innovation Hatchery Endowment Fund at Sutter Health.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Upon request from patients or their caregivers, pharmacists would need to provide medication instructions in Spanish, Tagalog, Chinese, Vietnamese or Korean. The instructions could be on prescription labels or in patient handouts.
Families of CCS children, child advocates and the children’s hospital lobby had criticized the state’s transition plan, saying that Medi-Cal managed care hasn’t worked well for other vulnerable populations.
Under the bill, mentally competent adults who are terminally ill with less than six months to live could request lethal medication from a physician.
Consensus Orthopedics just raised $8 million from Los Angeles-based Breakwater Investment Funds, CEO Colleen Gray said, to be used as growth capital. “Hip and knee replacements are a pretty capital-intensive business,” Gray said. “We’re doing this so we can continue on our trajectory, and bring out some new products. The company’s sort of your tried-and-true maker […]