Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires and Layoffs
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
Why Banner Health Is Scaling Automation Tech In Its Operating Rooms
Banner Health is deploying Qventus’ perioperative technology across the entire organization following the success of an initial pilot. The software integrates with EHRs and uses machine learning to automate operating room scheduling processes and maximize surgical caseloads.
When Investment Rhymes with Canada
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
Banner|Aetna launches program to reduce billing confusion among members
Banner|Aetna — the Arizona health plan owned by Banner Health and Aetna — rolled out a new frictionless billing program. It is designed to minimize confusion among members by combining billing information from both the provider and payer.
How Banner Health streamlined digital experience for patients across 29 hospitals
Alexandra Morehouse, chief marketing officer at Banner Health, spoke to MedCity News about how the 29-hospital system made changes to patients' digital experience amid the Covid-19 pandemic and the types of technology that helped drive the changes.
Xealth, Cerner build out digital health prescribing platform
Xealth and Cerner had been working together after the health IT vendor invested in Xealth earlier this year. The companies brought on Banner Health as their first client.
Banner Health bets on innovation with formation of new initiative
The Banner Innovation Group, or BIG, is a way to bring together the health system's existing innovation efforts — like its emergency department chatbot — under one umbrella, as well as to expand into new areas.
Using Informed Awareness to Transform Care Coordination and Improve the Clinical and Patient Experience
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
Virtual primary care startup 98point6 collaborates with health plan Banner|Aetna
Through the collaboration, members of the health plan, which is owned by Banner Health and insurer Aetna, will have access to 98point6's on-demand, text-based primary care offering.
What Banner Health and Philips learned from an outpatient telehealth program
Banner Health learned old assumptions must be put aside to develop a patient-centered telehealth program by harnessing home monitoring devices, tablets for video consults, all integrated and powered on Philips Healthcare's software.
Banner Health hacked, exposing data on 3.7M people
This incident doesn't seem to have targeted only patient records. Instead, at least one hack hit food and beverage stations at Banner facilities in four states.
ATA 2016: Banner Health saves lives, big money with telemedicine
Banner’s iCare telehealth model saved an estimated 1,890 lives and $109 million, according to a case study presented Monday.
Unlocking Transparency in PBM Pricing
The TSX Venture Exchange has a strong history of helping early-stage health and life sciences companies raise patient capital for research and development.
Morning Read: Researchers could gain access to HIPAA-protected data
Also, critics are questioning the credibility and direction of the New England Journal of Medicine, and Banner Health has reported that its operating income fell more than 50 percent.