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.
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.
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.
Three of the California's largest healthcare purchasers have banded together to promote care that’s safer and more cost-effective.
Panelists at CableLabs' Inform[ED] Connected Healthcare conference in New York this week agreed that ransomware attacks are an issue every hospital has to contend with.
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.
This week, Sutter Health added 12 practices to its list of interoperability partners, all with eClinicalWorks EHRs. Sutter, which uses Epic, has been exchanging data among about a dozen area practices on athenahealth's EHR since July 1.
The goal of this new initiative is to make it easier for oncologists to have their patients tested for genetic mutations linked to cancer.
Among those providers investing undisclosed amounts are Sutter Health and Dignity Health from Augmedix's home turf in Northern California, plus Englewood, Colorado-based Catholic Health Initiatives and Cincinnati-based TriHealth.
The current fight centers on larger employers that tend to self-insure because they have the financial resources to pay their own medical claims. They often hire an insurer to negotiate with hospitals for discounted rates as part of their health plan network for employees.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
CVS Health entered into four new clinical affiliations to increase better healthcare for patients, an app using ResearchKit will support a study of health issues relevant to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer community.
Hill Physicians Medical Group, which has 3,800 physician providers, has joined Anthem Blue Cross‘s ACO network in California as part of an effort by both organizations to reduce costs through the increased use of PPOs. Anthem’s ACO specifically targets members with two or more chronic conditions to help them better maintain overall health through care […]
While there may be an explosion of wearable health devices for consumers that bring them a multitude of new data streams, incorporating those devices and that data into a major health system’s EHR remains a daunting, slow-moving task. That’s according to Martin Entwistle, director of Sutter Health‘s Innovation Center at the Palo Alto Medical Center, […]
The pace of consolidation in healthcare is well documented, with hospital systems in particular being prime merger or acquisition targets as pressure mounts from reduced Medicare reimbursements, but another side of healthcare could be next – hospice providers. Facing similar pressures from the ACA like all providers, the hospice industry is also facing cuts from […]