Health Care

Providence acquires Epic consultant Bluetree

Acquired company offers health records optimization

July 3, 2019

Providence St. Joseph Health has acquired Epic consulting and strategy company Bluetree Network Inc. in a move to diversify its nonclinical revenue stream and enhance its use of the Epic digital health records system, executives at both organizations say.

Health care consultant Eleven8 grows from humble start

Eleven8 helps improve operational efficiencies

July 3, 2019

Kim Crompton

For many professionals, being notified that their jobs are to be eliminated would cause alarm and stressful uncertainty. For Lori Gibson and Jennifer Offereins, it provided the impetus to launch an entrepreneurial venture.

MultiCare to grow COPE Health Scholars here

Student participation expected to double

July 3, 2019

LeAnn Bjerken

This fall will mark the second year that MultiCare Health System has offered COPE Health Scholars, a program that provides high school and college students hands-on learning in clinical and administrative settings,

Inland Northwest construction industry combats opioid use

Safety personnel working to curb the 'tough guy' mentality in construction

July 3, 2019

Natasha Nellis

It has long been the mantra of construction workers to adhere to the proverbial 'tough guyâ€ image, those who believe showing weakness is unacceptable, and talking about feelings is unimaginable.

Heritage Health's Big Lift in North Idaho

Cd'A nonprofit provider starts its preparations for Medicaid expansion

July 3, 2019

Virginia Thomas

Coeur d'Alene-based nonprofit health care provider Heritage Health has witnessed a six-fold increase in the number of patients it serves annually during the past decade.

Young Selkirk Pharma envisions big facility on West Plains

Drug packager files plans for $30 million plant

June 20, 2019

Natasha Nellis

Selkirk Pharma Inc., a young injectable-drug manufacturing and packaging company headquartered in Spokane, plans to build a new, roughly $30 million manufacturing facility on the West Plains.

Brain Power: Building a neurosciences hub in Spokane

Health experts here tout potential in medical specialty

June 20, 2019

LeAnn Bjerken

Spokane-area scientists and physicians say the need to expand neurological treatments and research is becoming more urgent as the incidence of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, increases among America's aging population.

Health insurers request historically low rate increase

Two new companies join 2020 individual market

June 6, 2019

LeAnn Bjerken

Health insurers in Washington state have filed a record-low average proposed rate increase of less than 1% for the 2020 individual health insurance market, the state Office of the Insurance Commissioner says.