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STAT+: Peter Orszag wants the FTC and DOJ to stop challenging health care mergers

STAT

In this case, the biggest piece of health care legislation in the past half-century has been a fountain of wealth for the financial advisers that help hospitals, health insurers, and other large companies merge with each other.   Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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STAT+: Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre will resign

STAT

  Ralph de la Torre , a former heart surgeon who built and became the face of  Steward Health Care  and its network of neglected hospitals, is stepping down from the company Tuesday and will no longer serve as board chairman and chief executive, the company said in a statement to the Globe Saturday.

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STAT+: Geisinger board member: Local consolidation influenced Kaiser-Geisinger deal

STAT

A long-running flurry of hospital and medical group acquisitions in Pennsylvania — especially among the giants UPMC and Highmark Health — forced Geisinger to make a bigger move of its own and to sell to Kaiser Permanente. That’s according to Gail Wilensky, who has been on the board of Geisinger since 2010.

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Hospitals' risk of data breach doubles just before, after a merger deal, research shows

Fierce Healthcare

Between 2010 and 2022, U.S. | A recent analysis of 2010-2022 data found that the year before and after closing a merger are risky for hospitals, due to their higher public profile and the marriage of mismatching data systems.

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Opinion: Eliminate the waiting period for sterilization covered by Medicaid

STAT

From 1919 to 1952, more than 20,000 nonconsensual sterilizations took place in that state; the law was not repealed until 1979 in state hospitals and, frighteningly, was still in effect in state prisons until 2010. A eugenics law in California, for example, permitted providers to sterilize people they deemed unfit to reproduce.

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Partnering With Microbiology Laboratory To Bring Awareness To Antimicrobial Resistance

IDStewardship

A greater awareness, even within individual hospitals, of the resistance genes, MRSA rates, and VRE rates generate attention and bring better techniques to resolving AMR concerns. “Part of the problem is the lack of data at many levels.

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Spotlight On The Infectious Diseases Podcast Over 15 Years Old That Just Added New Mobile Streaming Options

IDStewardship

ID Podcasts’ first podcast, “A Tour of the London Museum of Science,” was posted in June 2007. From there, our content grew rapidly – we commemorated our 100 th podcast in November 2009, and our first early smartphone apps were released in May 2010. We celebrated our 15 th anniversary in 2022.

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