Month: June 2014

Integrated Health Network pitched its new name and a new self-insurance product to a room full of insurance brokers earlier this week at the Harley Davidson Museum in Milwaukee. The network is made up of six independent health systems, including Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, that represents 4,500 physicians and 34 hospitals. (WHN, 6/27)

As the rush around meaningful use slows, the next push will be to ensure providers are fully utilizing the technology that's available to them, according to Eric Helsher, executive director of Epic's Clinical Adoption Program. (WHN, 6/26)

Six experts on the economics of healthcare explained the financial reasons pushing providers to join major hospital systems during a discussion panelWednesday at the 2014 Digital Healthcare Conference in Madison. (WHN, 6/26)

Twenty-three of Wisconsin’s 65 hospitals treating Medicare patients are at risk of federal penalties for high rates of infections or other hospital-acquired conditions, giving the state the seventh highest preliminary penalty rate in the nation at 35 percent, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis. (WHN, 6/25)

Wisconsin's Medicare spending per capita is about $1,000, or 15 percent, less than the national average of $9,503, a federal official announced during a Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality meeting last month. (WHN, 6/25)