Boston Children’s Hospital (Boston) announced the completion of the Hale Family Building on its Longwood Medical Area campus in Boston. The 600,000-square-foot, 11-story project includes a cardiac intensive care unit (ICU), the newly named Benderson Family Heart Center with private patient rooms, and interconnected indoor and outdoor garden spaces. Shepley Bulfinch (Boston) served as the architecture and design firm on […]
Nearly 6.5 million people visit America’s emergency rooms each year for chest pain. Additional millions of people seek out cardiologists to evaluate their chest pain, concerned they may be at risk for heart disease. If that’s you, it’s important to know what to expect when you do see a cardiologist or undergo evaluation for chest pain. There are many causes […]
Two of the biggest buzzwords in the healthcare industry these days are “digital transformation” — and for good reason. There’s lots of room for improvement! The patient experience needs to be improved, processes need to be automated, and the cost of administering healthcare needs to be lowered. Digital transformation is a path towards achieving these goals – just like it […]
Ah, summertime! Right about now, you might be yearning or even packing for your dream vacation—one full of rest and relaxation. Long, languorous days of doing nothing, perhaps lying on the beach or holed up in a cabin somewhere far from the city. Imagine how happy you’ll be. Then imagine how bored you’ll be. Lying in the blazing sun on […]
INVEST Digital Health is coming to Dallas September 28. Held in collaboration with Health Wildcatters, the themes include employee benefits and the financial journey in healthcare. One of the panel discussions will turn the spotlight on pharmacy benefit managers. Here’s a description and the speakers taking part. What’s the future of phamacy benefit management? Pharmacy benefit managers are the mainstay […]
Each week, Dr. Kim Puterbaugh sees several pregnant patients at a Cleveland hospital who are experiencing complications involving bleeding or infection. The OB-GYN has to make quick decisions about how to treat them, including whether to remove the dead or dying fetus to protect the health and life of the mother. Leaving in place a fetus that has no chance […]
The Chicago area is a more competitive market than Milwaukee, said Nathan Ray, who leads the healthcare merger and acquisition division at the consultancy West Monroe. “There’s a little more leeway in Wisconsin because Advocate Aurora has in certain areas more dominance and cachet,” he said. Charlotte, North Carolina, where Atrium is based, has a more concentrated hospital market than […]
Of the several types of entrepreneurship, each has its own distinct goals, aspirations and measures of success. Some types of entrepreneurship focus on innovation or societal change, others strive for rapid expansion or growth from an existing business model and still others generate profits to support the entrepreneur’s lifestyle with no plans for expansion. Understanding the different types of entrepreneurship, […]
Preliminary data for April 2022 show that total Medicaid/Children’s Health Insurance Program enrollment has grown by 23.9% since February 2020, an August 3 report by Kaiser Family Foundation shows. This represents an increase of 17 million people, reaching 88.3 million total people enrolled. KFF’s report analyzed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Performance Indicator Project Data. It comes after […]
Democrats pushed their election-year economic package to Senate passage Sunday, a hard-fought compromise less ambitious than President Joe Biden’s original domestic vision but one that still meets deep-rooted party goals of slowing global warming, moderating pharmaceutical costs and taxing immense corporations. The estimated $740 billion package heads next to the House, where lawmakers are poised to deliver on Biden’s priorities, a stunning turnaround of what had seemed a […]