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AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

Getting Paid in Real-Time

OODA Health, which focuses on removing inefficiency from health care administration, and Blue Shield of California are building a cloud-based platform to provide payments to providers immediately after care is delivered. The companies will test the new technology as a pilot program with Dignity Health and Hill Physicians in Oakland.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

UnitedHealth Deal Expands PBM Reach

UnitedHealth Group, the nation's largest health insurer, and Genoa Healthcare, one of the nation's largest pharmacy chains, are teaming up in a move that could bring significant cost savings and improved operational efficiency in caring for psychiatric patients and those with substance use disorders.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

Blockchain: Ways to Improve Health Care Efficiency

Hospitals, insurers, labs, researchers and others are exploring ways blockchain technology can improve business and clinical operations. Many believe the technology could sharply boost business and clinical efficiency while providing data-security benefits.
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FEMA activates emergency plans ahead of Hurricane Michael

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has activated its National Response Coordination Center in Washington, D.C., and Regional Response Coordination Center in Atlanta in preparation for Hurricane Michael, which is expected to make landfall as a major hurricane within the next 24 hours along the Florida coastline
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AHA participates in forum on bundled payment

Participating today in a panel discussion in Washington, D.C., on bundled payment, AHA Chief Medical Officer Jay Bhatt, D.O., said hospitals and health systems participating in bundled payment models need timely data to make evidence-based decisions on changes to care delivery and cooperation across care settings to succeed.
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CMS announces BPCI Advanced participants 

A total of 832 acute care hospitals and 715 physician group practices are participating in Medicare’s Bundled Payments for Care Improvement – Advanced model, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today.
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Mark Sparta named president of Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey and H.F. Mason, M.D., named chief medical officer of Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County in Mississippi.

Also in this roundup of hospital and health system leadership changes: Ron Connovich named president of Fort Hamilton Hospital in Ohio and Kendall Sawa named COO of Providence Portland Medical Center in Oregon.
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Nurse and hospital staff launch clothing drive to benefit patients

Also in this weekly roundup of nursing news: nurses are the biggest hand-washers, and executive moves in the field.
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HRSA kicks off 2019 Hospital Organ Donation Campaign

The Health Resources and Services Administration’s Workplace Partnership for Life 2019 Hospital Organ Donation Campaign began Oct. 1 and runs through April 2019.
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FDA guidance aims to increase generic competition for topical drugs

The Food and Drug Administration yesterday released a series of guidance documents intended to help manufacturers develop generic transdermal and topical delivery systems, products that deliver a drug through a patient’s skin.