When AdventHealth CEO Terry Shaw's wife was hospitalized following a car accident, he was frustrated at how difficult the process was to navigate, and that led him to implement four major changes at his own health system, Shaw writes on LinkedIn.
The bill now heads to Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R), who has not indicated whether he will sign the measure, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Maryland, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (D) on Sunday announced that he has entered the race for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president, and a video launching his campaign touched on his views regarding health care reform.
Researchers at Geisinger have developed an algorithm that uses electrocardiogram (ECG) data to determine whether a person will die within a year, Geisinger recently announced.
Presidential candidates largely took a break from rehashing their stances on so-called "Medicare for All" proposals during last week's Democratic primary debate. But new polling suggests voters don't want a break from Medicare-for-All debates—they want more details, Ashley Fuoco Antonelli writes.
More public health experts and groups are calling on the Trump administration to ban flavored e-cigarettes—an intensifying push that came just days before President Trump in a meeting with industry stakeholders voiced concerns about the effect of such a ban.