Archive for Vendor Updates
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QuadMed Enters into Agreement with MDLiveCare
By now you have read that QuadMed and MDLiveCare have reached agreement for all the QuadMed owned or managed sites to use the MDLiveCare national network of providers to offer telemedicine in a variety of specialties wherever and whenever needed using readily available technology. The model used...
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Novia CareClinics Opens Clinic for School District
It was recently announced that Fort Wayne Community School District opened a clinic for employees which will be managed by Novia CareClinics, LLC. (Novia is headquartered in Indianapolis and per the web site operates about 30 clinics at this time.) This is the first of two such clinics the dis...
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Take Care Health and Cisco Team Up for Long Distance Care
Take Care Health System took over the management of the Cisco San Jose on-site clinic earlier this year, but the latest news is that the two industry giants (Take Care in clinic management and Cisco in technology) combined their respective strengths and now the providers at the San Jose site will be...
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Marathon Health Gets Contract
It was announced at the beginning of this month that Marathon has been given the contract to manage on-site services for the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government employees (about 6,400 of them). This is in Kentucky and apparently will offer primary care services in a medical home model, alo...
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New Clinics Open
A quick article to let you know about some new on-site clinics which opened recently, the employers and vendors involved. First, Haynes International (a manufacturer of metal alloys) partnered with Novia CareClinics to open a new on-site service for their 900 employees, some retirees and dependent...
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New Clinic Contracts Awarded
In the last couple of weeks we have noted the opening of new clinics, or the awarding of clinic management contracts, to various vendors. We'll do a quick review here. CareHere was awarded two contracts, one to manage a clinic in Denton, TX for city employees; and one at the Nashville Interna...
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NY Hospitals are “in the game”
The most powerful and influential medical system in NY State is now in the on-site game. As reported by Crain's Health Pulse last week, North Shore-LIJ "sees the need for workplace docs." The article covered a service that they are providing for employees of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory a...
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Fortune Article on On-Site Clinics
On 8/2/2011 /Fortune magazine published an article on the current status of on-site clinics in the U.S. They quoted leaders from Towers Watson, Cerner and Take Care Health Systems, all companies with a significant commitment to the on-site industry. Included in stats in this article was data...
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Warren Hutton to Assume COO Position at HealthStat
Healthstat announced that it has hired its existing outside legal counsel, Mr. Warren Hutton, to assume the newly created position of COO and General Counsel. He will be responsible for "... the day-to-day management of the company" and for ". . . managing all legal affairs effecting and incident ...
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Anybody here for sale?
Consolidation continues as PANTHERA Global enters the ring to seek out acquisition targets in the on-site industry. You can read about some of their criteria in the press release. This continues on the heels of purchases by a variety of firms, not the least of which was the game-changer when Wal...