Business Intelligence

Providers utilize business intelligence to monitor referral patterns and collaborate with clinicians who order their services. Such analytics tools have also been deployed in the specialty to improve productivity, track patient satisfaction and bolster quality.

Major private payer encouraging employees to leave willingly
The largest Medicaid-specialized managed care organization in the U.S. is offering buyout packages to most of its 60,000 or so staff workers.
‘Epic’ trademark lawsuit leaves healthcare staffing firm without a name
Epic Systems, the market leading EHR vendor, sued California-based Epic Staffing in 2024, arguing that the company’s name created confusion in the market. The lawsuit was settled out of court, with the employment firm agreeing to a full rebrand.
As Americans tuck into supplements like their health depends on it, specialized products are displacing multivitamins
Some of today’s most popular products promise better immune, adaptogenic, anti-inflammatory, gut, skin or joint health—or combinations of two or more of the above.
Express Scripts sues Tennessee over PBM law that would close specialty pharmacy
The company called the state’s regulation of pharmacy benefit managers “shortsighted,” as it would force the closure of Accredo, a specialty drug dispensary that supplies drugs it says aren’t available anywhere else in the state.
FTC settles lawsuit with Optum Rx, ending its campaign against the ‘big three’ PBMs
The agency had been suing the three largest pharmacy benefit managers over their alleged control of insulin prices. It reached agreements with CVS’ Caremark and Cigna’s Express Scripts earlier this year.

Johnson & Johnson’s HIV vaccine trial fails

Johnson & Johnson has discontinued its Mosaico clinical trial that aimed to protect against HIV after its Phase 3 study revealed the regiment was safe but ineffective.

Imaging industry names in the news: Canon, Medality, Viz.ai, more

Promaxo Inc. of Oakland, Calif., sold eight of its systems for performing AI-equipped, MRI-guided prostate interventions in the fourth quarter of 2022. The company launched a year prior and has now topped $15 million in sales.

Fysicon’s QMAPP Hemodynamic Monitoring Device

Canon Medical Systems announces new partnership focused on enterprise imaging and hemodynamics

The partnership is with ScImage, a California-based healthcare technology company known for its extensive EI background.

Groups clash with CMS over independent dispute resolution

The heads of RBMA and three other medical management associations are locking arms and pointing their voices in the general direction of Washington.

M&A mergers and acquisitions business deal

GE HealthCare eyes IR guidance company, releases revenue results

Less than a week after ringing the Nasdaq opening bell to showcase its long-awaited independence, GE HealthCare has announced a first strategic acquisition is in the works.

Autonomous radiology stalwart taking health insurance internal

The independent-practice coalition Strategic Radiology has founded a captive health insurance program to offer its 1,500 or so member physicians and their respective support staffs.

GE HealthCare hires former Amazon, FDA exec to oversee science and technology operations

A med-tech leader of note is taking skills refined at Amazon, the FDA and the CDC to GE HealthCare, where he will serve as the newly independent company’s first CTO.

Imaging industry names in the news: GE HealthCare, OncoNano, NeuroLogica, NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes and Inhibrx

GE HealthCare has begun trading as an independent company on the Nasdaq exchange. To mark the occasion and showcase its completed spinoff from General Electric, the company remotely rang the opening bell at Nasdaq from its manufacturing facility in Waukesha, Wis.

Business Intelligence

Major private payer encouraging employees to leave willingly

‘Epic’ trademark lawsuit leaves healthcare staffing firm without a name

As Americans tuck into supplements like their health depends on it, specialized products are displacing multivitamins

Express Scripts sues Tennessee over PBM law that would close specialty pharmacy

FTC settles lawsuit with Optum Rx, ending its campaign against the ‘big three’ PBMs