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Why Amazon Has Inside Track to Lead Health Care Disruption
As investors and health care organizations place their bets on companies that will have the greatest impact in disrupting health care, many in the financial community have made it clear who they think will win the battle. More than 600 respondents to a recent poll by CB Insights, a market data and research firm serving venture capitalists, investment bankers and others, chose Amazon as the big tech company that will have the largest sway on health care by nearly a 2-1 margin over Google and Apple. Microsoft finished a distant fourth.
Study calls for CJR strategies to address safety-net hospitals’ disadvantage
Hospitals that serve a disproportionate share of low-income patients were less likely to qualify for financial rewards in the first year of Medicare’s Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model.
House holds hearing on preventing gun violence
A witness called for a broad multidisciplinary, multi-strategy approach supported by science and research, similar to the approach used to prevent motor vehicle injuries and death.
House hearings examine threats to preexisting condition protections
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee today held a
Trump discusses health care affordability, HIV and childhood cancer at SOTU
In his state of the union address last night, President Trump said lowering the cost of health care and prescription drugs and protecting patients with pre-existing conditions were some of his major priorities.
Health care, consumer groups applaud as CREATES Act reintroduced
Nearly 50 health care and consumer groups, including the AHA, voiced their support for the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples Act as it was reintroduced yesterday in the new Congress.
AdventHealth Orlando (Fla.) selects CEO
Also in this roundup of hospital and health system leadership changes: LCMC Health, New Orleans, names market CEO, and Steward Health Care, Dallas, selects president of Utah region.
Story on AHA report highlights region’s mental health crisis
Also in this weekly roundup of health care news: Providence St. Joseph Health launches population health company; Aetna, others try new approach to educate doctors about opioid alternatives.
How hospitals are boosting healthy food access in vulnerable communities
Langhorne, Pa.-based St. Mary Medical Center makes fresh, affordable food available to more than 1,000 families, and Hartford, Conn.’s Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center donates food, clothing, household items and healthy eating guidance.
Throughput software can help guide hospitals through emergencies
Hospitals and health systems are using command center technology in addition to their electronic medical records to help them stay organized during a disaster or after a recent merger.