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Neil Sarkar, president and CEO of the Rhode Island Quality Institute, the home of Rhode Island's health information exchange, CurrentCare, spoke at length with ConvergenceRI about the integration of data and AI in health care delivery in Rhode Island.
Neil Sarkar presents his recipe to change health care in RI
PROVIDENCE – Neil Sarkar, president and CEO of the Rhode Island Quality Institute, the home of CurrentCare, the state’s health information exchange, occupies a unique position in the … more
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Lifespan and Brown University have inked a new partnership that will provide the largest health care system and private employer with a new brand: “Brown Health.” The move involves a flow of money from Brown to the delivery of care system formerly known as Lifespan, and then, after seven years, the flow of money will be reversed, with Brown Health investing in the Brown medical school.
Brown and Lifespan: ‘We belong together.’
PROVIDENCE – Lifespan and Brown University threw a big media splash party at Hasbro Children’s Hospital early Thursday morning, June 20, to announce the rebranding of the state’s … more
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Attorney General Peter Neronha won his lawsuit against Prospect, the owners of Roger Williams Medical Center and our Lady of Fatima hospitals, with R.I. Superior Court Judge Brian Stern ordering Prospect to pay $17 million in the next 10 days to cover outstanding medical bills. A regulatory decision is expected in the next few days regarding the proposed sale of the two hospitals to the Centurion Foundation.
Will the health system crash and burn?
PROVIDENCE – The opening paragraph of Gravity’s Rainbow , a 1972 novel by Thomas Pynchon, begins: “A screaming comes across the sky . It has happened before, but there is nothing to … more
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In a moment of male whimsy, U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse banged the gavel to open his keynote address at the health care summit at the R.I. Statehouse on Tuesday, May 28. Sen. Whitehouse began his address by lamenting the fact that the merger between Lifespan and Care New England did not go through. The Senator then urged the state to go all in and apply for the AHEAD program which would transition the state into a value-based, annualized payment system of care.
Bang the gavel slowly
PROVIDENCE – Many of the titans of the health care industry in Rhode Island gathered on Tuesday morning, May 28, in the House of Representatives chambers for what was billed as a … more
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State Rep. Tina Spears
Big budget victory on raising Medicaid rates
PROVIDENCE – The state budget is often a bare-knuckle brawl behind closed doors, but this year, the community advocates – and the service providers who care for more than one-third of … more
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Christopher Koller, the president and CEO of Milbank Memorial Fund, revisits the behind-the-scenes story about how Rhode Island narrowly escaped efforts by the private equity forces of Steward Health Care to purchase Landmark Medical Center, in an essay entitled: "Outrunning the Beasts of Hell: How One Community Hospital Avoided the Fallout of Private Equity's Investments in Health Care."
Outrunning the beasts of hell
WOONSOCKET – Landmark Medical Center sits not far from the Blackstone River and its waterfalls’ “thundering mists,” which translates in Algonquian to “Woonsocket,” … more
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