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Expanding roles of health professionals calls for more training
The majority of registered nurses and hospital administration staff believe patients should be very concerned with the quality of care provided, according to a recent University of Phoenix College of...
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OHSU Knight Cancer Institute appoints new chief strategy officer
Oregon Health & Science University has appointed a new chief strategy officer for the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute. Mark B. Williams will oversee the group's budget and work toward long-term...
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National health care firm proposing $36M psychiatric hospital in Wilsonville
A new $35.8 million psychiatric hospital might be coming to Wilsonville depending on the outcome of an Oregon Health Authority review. OHA is beginning its review of a Certificate of Need application...
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Fred Hutch changes up leadership team to emphasize collaboration
Starting in November, Dr. Bruce Clurman will be a new executive vice president and deputy director at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Clurman, who joined Fred Hutch in 1991 as a senior...
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Expert panel to talk health care innovation, how to speed it up
A half-day conference on health care innovation is set for next Friday, Oct. 28, in metro Atlanta. The delivery of health care in American is constantly changing. New products, procedures, drugs and...
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UW Medicine announces $2 billion fundraising campaign
UW Medicine plans to raise $2 billion for research, education and patient care by 2020 as part of the larger $5 billion "Be Boundless: For Washington, For the World" campaign the University of...
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Viewpoint: GPAC an example of shift to value-based care
There’s no question that the health care system in the United States is broken. Compared to other industrialized nations, we spend far more on health care yet our outcomes lag behind. From the...
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Aurora VA hospital 78 percent complete, on track for 2018 completion (Photos)
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical facility in Aurora is now 78 percent complete and is on-track for a previously announced 2018 completion. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was awarded a...
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Why Wall Street got antsy with this East Bay biotech's cancer study
Aduro Biotech Inc.'s stock plummeted as much as 22 percent in premarket trading Monday, after a patient in a trial of the Berkeley company's trial of a pancreatic cancer treatment was found to have an...
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Skilled-nursing company settling false-claims allegations for $145M
Life Care Centers of America Inc. and its owner have agreed to pay a $145 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the company made false claims for services rendered. The U.S. Department of Justice...
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Cigna settles with Attorney General to remove barriers to opioid addiction...
Cigna Corp. (NYSE: CI) has reached a national settlement agreement with the New York Attorney General to make it easier for its members to get access to opioid addiction treatment drugs. Cigna no...
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Moda downgraded by ratings agency, reflecting losses
Moda Health may have raised capital earlier this year and come out from a regulatory consent order, but the top insurance ratings firm apparently still takes a skeptical view of the company’s financial...
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Dignity Health in talks with Catholic Health Initiatives on possible deal
Dignity Health said it's in talks with Catholic Health Initiatives on a possible merger. The two nonprofits have signed a letter of intent to explore a combination, according to a statement issued...
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Catholic Health Initiatives, Dignity Health hospital systems explore merger
Colorado-based Catholic Health Initiatives has signed a non-binding letter of intent to combine with Dignity Health, a merger that would bring together two of the five largest nonprofit health systems...
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Uber offering free flu shots to Birmingham users Tuesday
Birmingham Uber users on Tuesday will be able to order a flu vaccine through their smartphone, part of an Uber for Health day initiative in 13 U.S. cities. Between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., Uber will deliver...
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BDSI’s opioid treatment drug continues growth with Texas Medicaid contract
Raleigh-based pharmaceutical company BioDelivery Sciences International (Nasdaq: BDSI) has scored a new managed care contract with Texas Medicaid for its opioid dependence drug Bunavail. The latest...
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Shares of Rancho Cordova-based Cesca Therapeutics jump 27 percent in a day
Traders bought up shares of Rancho Cordova-based medical biotechnology company Cesca Therapeutics Inc. on Monday, raising the price 27 percent in a single day. Cesca shares rose 83 cents to $3.90,...
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What happens when a Genentech scientist walks into a podcast?
Genentech's legend starts in a bar — actually in Herb Boyer's lab at the University of California, San Francisco. But he and the late venture capitalist Bob Swanson connected and dismissed their...
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New Relic FutureTalk highlights autism in the workplace
When New Relic started to examine its diversity and inclusion efforts, the team was inspired to incorporate people on the autism spectrum in addition to its work in gender and race. Data scientist and...
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CHI St. Luke's parent explores merger with California health care system
Colorado-based Catholic Health Initiatives, the parent of Houston-based CHI St. Luke's Health, has signed a non-binding letter of intent to combine with Dignity Health, a merger that would bring...
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