Atrium Health
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How Can Health Systems Reduce Their Carbon Emissions? Experts Weigh In
The healthcare sector accounts for 8.5% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. Health systems have a moral obligation to reduce these emissions, experts argued during HIMSS23. The panelists shared tips about climate change mitigation strategies, such as to ask all tech vendors for their carbon reduction plan and to look for savings in the energy budget.
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How Atrium Health Made Payment a Part of Its Digital Front Door
A health system’s failure to offer patients with digital payment options could lead to slower collection times, create a disjointed patient financial experience, and result in decreased patient satisfaction and loyalty. At HIMSS23, Atrium Health’s vice president of revenue cycle management shared how his system integrated payment into its digital front door and gave pointers to hospitals looking to do the same.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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Health Systems Will Seek More Cross-Market Mergers, But Many Will Fail
Last week, New Mexico-based Presbyterian Healthcare Services and Midwest-based UnityPoint Health signed a letter of intent to merge. One consultant thinks these kinds of announcements will continue in the coming years, but a significant chunk of these intended mergers will end up being called off due to health systems realizing they’re not ready to make the sacrifices needed to reap the benefits of a megamerger.
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Russian Hackers Take Down At Least 17 U.S. Health System Websites
Russian hacker group Killnet has claimed responsibility for a string of recent cyberattacks that took more than a dozen hospital websites offline across the U.S. — including the websites for Cedars-Sinai, Michigan Medicine, and UPMC. The group has been active for at least a year and is known to target countries that support and/or send resources to Ukraine.
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Which Trends Dominated Hospital M&A Activity Last Year?
M&A activity among health systems picked up last year — key trends included cross-market mega-mergers and academic medical centers expanding their community hospital networks. Despite tough economic conditions, Kaufman Hall experts expect this activity to continue growing in 2023.
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2022 Was Hospitals’ Worst Financial Year in Decades, But 2023 Won’t Be Much Better
Financial analysts have said that 2022 may have been the worst year for hospital finances in decades. This year looks like it will be yet another year of financial underperformance, with rural providers in especially dire circumstances.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers, Legal
A myopic approach to merger regulation fails consumers instead of protecting them
Consolidated healthcare systems – even cross market systems – don’t have to raise their prices to have anticompetitive effects. They can leverage their size by using the volume of their purchases to extract discounts and other concessions from payers, national suppliers, and from labor pools.
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Hospitals, Social Determinants
NC doctor says ER ‘like when the tide goes out before a tsunami’
After seeing their peers in Washington, and now New York, treat an onslaught of Covid-19 cases, hospitals in communities that haven’t been hit as hard yet are rushing to ready beds, ventilators and other needed equipment. MedCity News interviewed physicians across the U.S. to see how they are preparing for the next wave of the disease.
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Health IT, Hospitals, Startups
Seattle startup Xealth secures $3M from Atrium Health, Cleveland Clinic and MemorialCare
The Seattle-based company, which spun out of Providence St. Joseph Health, has a platform that allows clinicians to prescribe and monitor digital health tools from their EHR workflows.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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Atrium Health, Wake Forest Baptist Health and Wake Forest University intend to merge
The North Carolina organizations aim to enter a final agreement later this year, which would include plans to develop a second Wake Forest School of Medicine campus in Charlotte.
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Health IT, Artificial Intelligence
6 organizations team up with Amazon to release HIPAA-compliant Alexa skills
Less than two months after MedCity speculated whether Amazon would release a HIPAA-compliant Echo device, the tech giant revealed Thursday that select skills for Alexa — the voice-activated personal assistant service powering those devices — are indeed HIPAA-compliant.
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UPMC chief innovation officer will head to Atrium Health
Rasu Shrestha, UPMC’s chief innovation officer and executive vice president of UPMC Enterprises, will join Atrium Health as its chief strategy officer in February 2019.
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Data breach at Atrium Health’s billing vendor affects 2.65M patients
Between September 22 and September 29, 2018, an unauthorized third party gained access to the databases of AccuDoc Solutions, Atrium Health’s billing vendor.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
