Through a new partnership, Castell will be able to refer members of its Utah health plan customers to Headspace for behavioral health coaching and therapy.

Here is a selection of recent executive hires, departures and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.

Intermountain Healthcare recently partnered with Story Health to help manage patients’ heart failure by increasing access to specialty care. Under the partnership, Intermountain clinicians are working with Story’s health coaches to help patients keep up with their treatment plans while they’re outside the walls of the doctor’s office.

Intermountain’s former chief medical officer argued that even though hospital finances are dire, hospitals should prioritize patient experience investments. Her reasoning? People like to talk about their experiences receiving healthcare — both good and bad. When word gets around that a hospital provides non-rushed, empathetic care, more people will want to come there for treatment,

Hear from patients, leading provider and payer executives, investors, and healthcare startups about how to improve the patient experience at the event, which kicks off the first day of the HLTH conference. ENGAGE at HLTH is scheduled for November 13 at the Venetian Expo in Las Vegas.

Leaders in healthcare draw attention to the myriad ways cloud computing technology is transforming healthcare.

Leaders in healthcare draw attention to the myriad ways cloud computing technology is transforming healthcare.

The Utah-based nonprofit health system will be able to tap into the venture capital firm’s network of tech-enabled companies that are aiming to realize the digital transformation of healthcare.

The company, launched by SSM Health, Presbyterian Healthcare Services and Intermountain Healthcare, aims to create a marketplace for digital tools similar to the application stores on smartphones so that health systems can test and implement new solutions in weeks rather than months.

If the merger is approved, the combined health system will operate 33 hospitals and 385 clinics across six states. The merger also represents the joining together of a faith-based organization, SCL Health, and a secular entity, Intermountain.

Intermountain Healthcare plans to close 25 of its retail pharmacies, and will transfer those prescriptions to CVS Pharmacy starting next month. The change will affect about 250 employees. 

The INVEST Precision Medicine conference cast a spotlight on the role of children’s hospitals, biopharma companies, diagnostic companies and startups in biopharma innovation. The video recordings of the conference sessions are now available to view.

Experts in precision medicine provide a broad overview of where we are and where we need to go to make the promise and potential of this sector a reality.

A panel of precision medicine experts from Children’s hospitals take part in a conversation that highlights the work being done to improve the way rare diseases and pediatric cancer is diagnosed and treated.

New technologies that enable precision medicine approaches to treating disease are reaching more patients. But panelists speaking at MedCity News’ INVEST Precision Medicine Conference added that advances in technology are happening faster than the ability of hospitals and health systems to keep pace.

On the final day of INVEST Precision Medicine, a panel with Caris Health, CVS Health, and Intermountain Healthcare will share assessments of precision medicine’s progress and the outlook for this sector. Also, a panel will highlight non dilutive funding opportunities for startups. Register now!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The newly created organization, dubbed OneTen, aims to create 1 million jobs for Black people over the next decade. Its founders include some big names in healthcare, such as Cleveland Clinic, Intermountain Healthcare and Humana.

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.

The nonprofit health system started offering Omada’s digital diabetes prevention program as a covered benefit to some at-risk patients.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.