This is the second installment of our look at Jim Adams’ health care IT Top 10 to-do list for 2013. Adams, executive director of research and insights for The Advisory Board Co., delivered the keynote during the 2013 Digital Healthcare Conference produced by WTN Media.
Jim Adams believes health care organizations are on an IT journey with a distant finish line and a lot of mile markers in between. Outlining many of those action steps, Adams, executive director of research and insights for The Advisory Board Co., delivered the opening keynote during the 2013 Digital Healthcare Conference produced by WTN Media.
Bill Yasnoff has been an evangelist for years, but so far he’s been preaching to an empty congregation. With the consensus failure of the current health information exchange model, he might finally start filling the pews. Yasnoff, managing partner of the consulting firm National Health Information Infrastructure Advisors, will speak on the business and investment potential of health record banks June 10 during Start Me Up Day as part of the annual Digital Healthcare Conference presented by WTN Media.
Middleton-based NitricGen walked away with the grand prize in the 2013 Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest. The early-stage company developed a device to treat diabetic foot ulcers. Other winners included Gristmill Studios of Fitchburg, a mobile and Xbox game development…
If IB’s annual Fittest Executive Challenge accomplishes anything, it demonstrates that former couch potato executives can transform their personal and professional lives. As we introduce you to our 2013 contestants, you will meet several extremely active people who once were sedentary, so when they talk about the many benefits of a fit lifestyle, they can draw from their before-and-after experiences.
Agrace announced the expansion of its hospice and palliative care services into Columbia, Sauk, and Iowa counties. No new facilities are planned for those areas.
A gathering of national health care executives and leaders of large health care organizations will convene in Madison June 11-12 for the 11th annual Digital HealthCare Technology Conference at the Fluno Center for Executive Education. Presented by WTN Media, the…
UW Health has broken ground on a new $220 million hospital in The American Center business park, according to a release. The 486,000-sq.-ft. hospital, built on 42 acres, will offer 56 beds, a clinic and wellness center, an emergency room,…
Atlanta-based LogistiCare announced it will permanently lay off 64 employees at its Madison call center starting in July, due to the loss of a state contract. The layoffs include 33 customer service representatives and 13 quality-assurance specialists. The 64 jobs…
Employee engagement is a hot topic these days, and with good reason. When you don’t have all hands on deck rowing in the same direction – or worse, if some of your employees are content to simply drag their oars in the surf – it’s hard to run a tight ship. But salary is rarely an employer’s only employee-related expense, and having employees who are disengaged with regard to their own health care can be just as pernicious, if not more so.
St. Vincent de Paul has opened a pharmacy on Fish Hatchery Road that will cater to people who cannot afford prescriptions. The pharmacy will stock only low-cost drugs for common conditions, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis, or infections,…
More than 97% of the doctor shareholders of Dean Health System approved its merger with SSM Health Care of St. Louis, which owns St. Mary’s Hospital. Dean will become a for-profit, secular subsidiary of SSM, a Catholic organization. The deal…
Dean Health System and SSM Healthcare will be building a new medical clinic in Baraboo next to St. Clare Hospital, which the two entities own. The $6.5 million clinic will offer primary care and specialty care and should be completed…
After rumors swirled that Meriter Health Services would be sold to a local competitor, Meriter’s CEO, Jim Woodward, admitted the company is looking to partner with other health care organizations in a process that could take up to a year.…
Bill Reay thinks he has a handle on the origins of Dane County’s current heroin crisis – and it has a lot to do with his own profession. Reay, the former chief pharmacy officer and senior director for Physicians Plus Insurance Corp., is convinced that the startling rise in heroin use both here and across the country stems from a marked increase in opioid use in general since the 1990s.
Construction on the 22,000-sq.-ft. Joyce and Marshall Erdman Clinic, a new Access Community Health Center, is starting near the Village on Park Mall on South Park Street. The new center will triple the space of the current Access clinic in…
WPS Health Insurance will open the WPS Health and Wellness Center, an on-site clinic for employees, at its Monona headquarters. QuadMed, a Sussex-based company that operates 36 clinics in 22 states, will run the clinic, which will be available to…
Madison-based Exact Sciences reported a net loss of $10.9 million (17 cents/share) on revenues of $1 million for the first quarter ending March 31, which slightly beat analysts’ predictions of a 20 cents/share net loss. Still, the company’s stock fell…
Despite opposition from Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, the Wisconsin Assembly, with bipartisan support, voted 89-8 to force changes in existing private contracts between insurers and dentists. Under the measure, endorsed by the Wisconsin Dental Association, dentists would no longer be…
Despite recent rumors that Dean Health System would merge with other health systems, the Dean Health System board recommended staying with SSM Health Care, its longtime partner, according to a report in the Wisconsin State Journal. SSM, which owns St.…
