Intermountain Healthcare
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Hospitals, Events, Health Tech
As children’s hospitals build up precision medicine programs, families still face challenges in reaching a diagnosis
Children’s hospitals are launching big efforts to identify more rare diseases through genome sequencing. Even as new treatments become available, many families struggle to reach a diagnosis.
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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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INVEST Precision Medicine conference kicks off today. Register now to be part of the conversation.
Register for the INVEST Precision Medicine conference, which kicks off today. Over the next three days industry experts will talk about precision medicine developments across pediatrics, bioinformatics, startups and more.
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Register for INVEST Precision Medicine virtual conference June 9-11 where life science and health tech meet
The conference will include conversations with healthcare industry experts from The Steve & Cindy Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Vineti, Ori Biotech, CVS Caremark, Caris Life Sciences, HHS, University City Science Center, and more.
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Hospitals, Startups, Health Tech
Providers, tech companies to advocate for expanding clinical care at home
A group of healthcare stakeholders — Amazon Care, Intermountain Healthcare and Ascension, to name a few — has created an alliance to advocate for home-based care services through policy changes.
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The provider’s IT playbook for efficient, equitable Covid-19 vaccine administration
The vaccine distribution process has begun and providers are figuring out how to make sure the doses are administered quickly, equitably and in a coordinated manner. Here is a snapshot of the IT strategies that providers are employing to achieve their vaccine administration goals.
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Intermountain, UnitedHealthcare create ACO for Medicare Advantage members
The health system and payer will coordinate care for eligible Medicare Advantage patients through the ACO, with the aim of improving health outcomes and reducing costs. The ACO expands a long-standing relationship between the two entities.
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Sanford Health halts merger talks with Intermountain ‘indefinitely’
The South Dakota-based health system has suspended talks related to its planned merger with Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare after the sudden departure of its CEO, Kelby Krabbenhoft. Sanford and its new CEO will instead focus on organizational needs, the system said.
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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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Intermountain expands diabetes prevention partnership with Omada
The nonprofit health system started offering Omada’s digital diabetes prevention program as a covered benefit to some at-risk patients.
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Provider consolidation continues with Intermountain merging with Sanford Health
If the merger is approved, the combined health system would operate 70 hospitals and employ 89,000 people. Intermountain CEO Dr. Marc Harrison would lead the new system, estimated to generate about $15 billion in annual revenue.
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Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers commit $55 million to make cheaper generics
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and several of its licensed insurance companies created a new subsidiary of nonprofit Civica Rx. The goal is to reduce the cost of generics by developing them.
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Hospitals, Startups, Health Services
Intermountain spins off new company to help ease the transition to value-based payments
The idea behind the new company – dubbed Castell – is to use Intermountain’s resources and learnings from its own efforts to shift to value-based care to help other providers on that journey.
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Intermountain Healthcare opens new innovation center with partner
The 30,000-square-foot facility in Salt Lake City will be used for evaluating, testing and designing new revenue cycle management technologies for hospitals, health systems and physician groups and will also serve as a client experience center.
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Intermountain Healthcare expands its home-based services through Intermountain at Home program
The program will include services like remote monitoring, virtual urgent care visits through Intermountain Connect Care, appointment video visits and physical therapy, to name a few.