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This channel highlights factors that impact hospital and healthcare economics and revenue. This includes news on healthcare policies, reimbursement, marketing, business plans, mergers and acquisitions, supply chain, salaries, staffing, and the implementation of a cost-effective environment for patients and providers.

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Report: QUEST hospitals save lives, $11B

While national hospital costs have increased by 37 percent since 2008, costs for hospitals in Premier's QUEST collaborative have risen only 14 percent and remained flat for the past year.

Seven organizations join Optum Labs collaborative

Optum Labs, a collaborative research and innovation center founded by Optum and Mayo Clinic, announced the addition of seven new charter partners.

HCI-DC 2014: Advancing big data

Big data is technology that brings data and architecture together so some analytic platform can turn data into wisdom, said John D. Halamka, MD, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, speaking at Health Care Innovation Day, an event jointly hosted by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the West Health Institute.

HCI-DC 2014: Cancer, big data and interoperability

The past 40 years has produced major advances in cancer care, with imaging and genomics revealing the molecular abnormalities in individual tumors in vast detail.

Press Ganey’s Quality PerformerSM Hospital eMeasures Solution Certified to Support Meaningful Use Stage 2 Clinical Quality eMeasures Reporting for Hospitals

February 5, 2014, South Bend, Indiana – Press Ganey, the leading patient experience improvement firm, today announced that its Quality PerformerSM Hospital eMeasures 1.3 solution has been certified for use by eligible hospitals to meet Meaningful Use Stage 2 Clinical Quality eMeasures reporting requirements as of December 5, 2013. Certified as an EHR Module under the Drummond Group’s Electronic Health Records Office of the National Coordinator Authorized Certification Body (ONC-ACB) program, this solution is compliant in accordance with the criteria adopted by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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DoD launching data mining effort targeting cancer

The Department of Defense is launching a $45 million data mining project, called Big Mechanism, to help track and advance cancer research, according to a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announcement.

VA, Kaiser partner to improve data sharing

The Veterans Health Administration and Kaiser Permanente will pool their resources to research and share best practices.

Walgreens turns to big data analytics to improve care

Big data analytics is coming to Walgreens' health clinics. The company is implementing a patient assessment tool and technology platform to bolster improvements in care, quality and risk score accuracy programs in more than 400 healthcare clinics at select locations, according to an announcement.

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U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

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Medsender, Patagonia Health team up to aid public health efforts against COVID-19

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.

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