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Oracle Health unveils new EHR to be released in 2025
Oct 29, 2024 · Oracle acquired health IT company Cerner in a $28 billion deal in June 2022 to push deeper into the healthcare market and help boost its cloud business. The company …
Calendar of healthcare conferences in 2024
May 1, 2024 · March. March 8-12: SXSW Health and MedTech Track 2024 – entire SXSW March 8-16 (Austin, Texas) March 11-15: 2024 HIMSS Global Health Conference (Orlando) March …
Here's what the CEOs of major payers earned last year - Fierce …
The CEOs of the six major national insurers earned a combined $122,970,614 in total compensation in 2023, according to annual proxy filings.
Healthcare layoff tracker—UPMC to lay off 100 more employees
Nov 27, 2024 · Updated, Nov. 22, 5 p.m. ET. Pontiac General Hospital to lay off most of its staff. Pontiac General Hospital is laying off 186 employees, including 79 mental health technicians …
Microsoft rolls out new tools to build healthcare AI agents
Oct 16, 2024 · Microsoft is also launching new capabilities in public preview within healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric. These new tools can tackle conversational data integration, …
How payers fared in NCQA's annual health plan ratings
Sep 16, 2024 · “Annual Health Plan Ratings are vital to providing health care consumers with transparent and objective information about the quality and performance of health plans," said …
CVS is expanding its MinuteClinics into primary care. Here's why
Oct 30, 2024 · In a bid to ease access challenges, CVS Health will offer in-network primary care to Aetna members in certain markets through its MinuteClinics.
AMA study: The 4 largest PBMs control 70% of the market
Sep 9, 2024 · The four largest pharmacy benefit managers in the U.S. control 70% of the national market, and most regional PBM markets are highly concentrated, according to new data from …
Kaiser Permanente reports $608M loss in Q3
Nov 11, 2024 · Kaiser’s net income the three months ending Sept. 30, 2024, was $845 million, and its capital spend was $922 million, which resulted in a negative 2.1% operating margin.