Cleveland-based Case Western Reserve University has named Damian Junk, PhD, associate director of administration for Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Junk most recently served as assistant director of cancer training and education, according to a news release from the university. …
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The National Cancer Institute has renewed Sacramento-based UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center’s “comprehensive” designation. The renewed designation includes a five-year grant of about $18 million, according to an Aug. 17 news release from UC Davis. The cancer center earned NCI…
When combined with immunotherapy, an mRNA-based vaccine has been found to cut the risk of melanoma recurrence and distant metastasis more than immunotherapy alone. Results from the phase 3 trial of the vaccine, called intismeran, will be presented at an…
Cardiac imaging, monitoring and specialist follow-up volumes keep climbing, and cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide. The response in most health systems has been to add AI department by department — automated echo quantification in one place,…
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Kansas City-based University of Kansas Health System and Cancer Center, and Colby, Kan.-based Citizens Health have launched a cancer care partnership. Two physicians from the University of Kansas Cancer Center who specialize in melanoma and genitourinary cancers have joined the…
Referrals stall between the referring office and the scheduler. Calls get abandoned. A patient hits the phone tree, gives up, and books somewhere else. None of it registers in a report until the revenue is gone and the patient is…
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Charles Roberts, MD, PhD, has been named president and CEO of Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, effective Jan. 1. Dr. Roberts is executive vice president and director of the St. Jude Comprehensive Cancer Center, according to an Aug.…
Most supply savings programs stop at the contract, and the opportunity that remains sits in clinical detail no spend report captures. Two physicians perform the same procedure and consume different supplies at different cost. Reimbursement does not match. Multiply that…
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- Allen Passerallo, Senior Vice President, Physician Preference, Vizient Inc.
- Ian O’Malley, Executive Director, Strategic Sourcing, University of Chicago Medicine
West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health and RWJBarnabas Health Medical Group have named Andrew Evans, DO, senior vice president and chief medical officer for oncology services. Dr. Evans shared news of his appointment in an Aug. 16 LinkedIn post. He has…
Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham has named Tom Roberts, MD, clinical director and interim program director of head and neck medical oncology within the Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute. With six care sites, the head and neck cancer program is…