Katie Adams is a Senior Reporter for MedCity News, covering a wide range of topics in the healthcare and life sciences industries. Her reporting has also appeared in various publications, including those focused on technology, law, and the insurance sector.
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As a result of ever-growing cybersecurity threats, health systems are prioritizing the role of the chief information security officer, according to a consultant at WittKieffer.
By: Katie Adams
Providence recently launched a study to help learn more about how health systems can use multi-cancer detection tests in clinical care. Three years ago, Providence became the first health system to use Grail's Galleri test, which screens patients for more than 50 kinds of cancer.
By: Katie Adams
HarmonyCares raised $200 million dollars to scale its in-home primary care delivery model for high-risk senior patients. The money will be used to expand HarmonyCares' market reach, particularly in the Medicare Advantage space — even as health systems continue to drop their MA contracts.
CMS issued its proposed rule for next year's Medicare physician fee schedule, revealing plans to cut payment rates by 2.8%. Industry groups swiftly expressed their outrage, arguing that reimbursement rates need to keep up with the pace of inflation.
By: Katie Adams
The number of hospital M&A deals may have fallen from Q1 to Q2 of this year, but that doesn’t mean that the hospital M&A space is lacking vitality, according to a new Kaufman Hall report. Rather, it means that the hospital M&A is shifting its emphasis from scale to strategy.
The number of hospital M&A deals may have fallen from Q1 to Q2 of this year, but that doesn't mean that the hospital M&A space is lacking vitality, according to a new Kaufman Hall report. Rather, it means that the hospital M&A is shifting its emphasis from scale to strategy.
This week, HHS issued its HTI-2 proposal — a new proposed rule to improve healthcare data sharing among providers, payers, patients and public health organizations. It comes just seven months after HHS issued its HTI-1 rule.
Walgreens' financial performance is still rocky, but experts agree there is a good chance that CEO Tim Wentworth can lead the company to recovery. To make this happen, Walgreens will have to let go of its retail clinic dreams and focus more on making its core pharmacy business as strong as possible.
The digital health fundraising market seems to be truly normalizing following the highs and lows of the pandemic, according to market research. During the first half of this year, U.S. digital health startups raked in $5.7 billion across 266 deals.
By: Katie Adams
For the past two years, Intermountain Health has been planning to move its hospital in the Denver suburb of Wheat Ridge, Colorado about three and a half miles away to a new and updated facility. The health system is planning to complete the move in one day, using about 20 ambulances to move an estimated 180 patients.
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