Articles by Paul Barr

Stop flushing pills down the toilet.

That’s the message behind a proposed rule from the Environmental Protection Agency that would ban health care facilities from disposing of hazardous pharmaceuticals by flushing them.

The VHA-UHC Alliance agreed to purchase for undisclosed terms a big part of MedAssets, as part of a three-way deal with Pamplona Capital Management, aiming to broaden its consulting capabilities for hospitals and health systems.

Advocates for the hospital field are going to ask Congress to rework some provisions of the budget legislation passed this week by the House and the Senate.

Officials for the Cleveland Clinic see a lot of potential for improvement in health care in the area of radiology, by using technology to try to get the most qualified radiologists reading particular images, and by keeping radiologists freer from tasks other than radiology.

NextLevel Health, a Chicago-based coordinated care entity, uses a population health management platform to improve care coordination for the members it serves, says the company's chief operations officer.

H&HN staff members recap the October 2015 issue of Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, discussing approaches to population health, stepping up cybersecurity to prevent such things as medjacking, and how physician crowdsourcing is a growing clinical tool.