Health Care
2018 Leaders in Health Care, Innovation in Health Care Delivery: Vera Whole Health
The Seattle company is being honored as a Leader in Health Care
This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. GOLD AWARD Vera Whole HealthSeattle verawholehealth.com Vera Whole Health has taken primary health care focused on preventive care rather than sick care out of its traditional setting and placed it in the workplace. The company has on-site clinics in…
2018 Leaders in Health Care, Achievement in Medical Technology: InDemand Interpreting
The Tukwila company is being honored as Leaders in Health Care.
This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. GOLD AWARD Indemand InterpretingTukwila, indemandinterpreting.com The genesis of InDemand Interpreting occurred when a husband-and-wife team in Wenatchee one a health care interpreter, the other a technology expert felt there had to be a better way to help non-English-speaking patients…
2018 Leaders in Health Care, Achievement in Medical Research: Philip Greenberg, Mike Jensen
The researchers from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research are Leaders in Health Care.
This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. GOLD AWARD Philip Greenberg, M.D.Member & Head, Program in Immunology, Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle | fredhutch.org Dr. Phil Greenberg has twice received the National Institutes of Health MERIT Award and his peers have elected…
2018 Leaders in Health Care, Outstanding Medical Director or Chief Medical Officer: Stephen Tarnoff, F. Marc Stewart
The president and CEO of Washington Permanente Medical Group, and the medical director at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance are Leaders in Health Care.
This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. GOLD AWARD Stephen Tarnoff, M.D.President and CEO, Washington Permanente Medical Group, Seattle wa.kaiserpermanente.org In the first 25 years of his career, Dr. Stephen Tarnoff was a family physician. Im a little bit old school in that some folks come…
2018 Leaders in Health Care, Outstanding Medical Center/Hospital Executive, Outside Puget Sound: Peter Rutherford, Eric Lewis
The CEO of Confluence Health in Wenatchee and the CEO of Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles are Leaders in Health Care
This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. GOLD AWARD Peter Rutherford, M.D.CEO, Confluence Health, Wenatchee confluencehealth.org Dr. Peter Rutherford grew up in Wenatchee and returned home to work at Wenatchee Valley Hospital as a general internist in 1990. He still goes to clinic at least a…
2018 Leaders in Health Care, Outstanding Medical Center/Hospital Executive, Puget Sound Region: Darren Redick
The VP of support services at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett is a Leader in Health Care.
This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. SILVER AWARD Colleagues say Darren Redick is laser-focused on creating a culture that fosters and supports innovative thinking and leadership. At the core of this culture lies a need for cross-functional transparency and collaboration. To that end, Redick built…
2018 Leaders in Health Care, Outstanding Medical Center/Hospital Executive, Puget Sound Region: J. Michael Marsh
The president and CEO of Overlake Medical Center in Bellevue is a Leader in Health Care.
This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. SILVER AWARD Under the direction of J. Michael Marsh, Overlake Medical Center joined EvergreenHealth in Kirkland to form the Eastside Health Alliance/Eastside Health Network, with a mission to provide accessible, coordinated, high-quality care to Eastside residents at lower cost….
A Fred Hutch Spinoff Is Pioneering a Way to Personalize Cancer Therapy
No two cancers are the same.
This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Doctors have found that sequencing the DNA of a patients cancer can help identify which cancer drugs are likely to be effective, helping to avoid multiple treatments. But this approach works only about 10 percent of the time. SEngine,…
The Future of Hospital IT: How Health Care Providers Can Invest in Change
With the scramble to implement electronic health records behind us, its now up to health systems to define what comes next.
Sponsored by West Monroe Partners Over the past decade, growth in hospitals IT spending exceeded the growth rate of overall healthcare expenditures, largely due to massive investments in implementing electronic health records (EHR) technology. With those investments mostly in the past, the onus is now on hospitals to define how and how much they will…
Washington Is the 9th Healthiest State
The number of smokers and uninsured residents in Washington state decreased significantly over the last five years.
Washington is one of the ten healthiest states in America, according to a new ranking from the United Health Foundation. The state of Washington ranks 9th overall among the state ranking, behind only Massachussets (1), Hawaii (2), Vermont (3), Utah (4), Connecticut (5), Minnesota (6), Colorado (7) and New Hampshire (8). Washington state is down…
Now Accepting Nominations for the 2018 Washington Leaders in Health Care Awards
Seattle Business magazine's 2018 event celebrating Washington state's world-class health care sector is coming up soon.
Seattle Business magazine is looking for individuals and organizations that are pioneering the effort to advance Washington’s world-class health sector. In this time of great turmoil in the health care industry, its more important than ever to recognize the institutions and individuals who are doing so much to make Washington state among the best places…
Bright Idea: Seattle Biotech Startup Advances Pace of Discovery
FenoLogica Biosciences works with the Pacific Northwest Research Institute to speed up scientific discoveries.
QUICK STUDY: FenoLogica Biosciences CEO Sean MacLeod sees promise in a business model that uses cloud computing and high-tech hardware to accelerate laborious by-hand research. In 2016, Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research in autophagy, a cell process that when disrupted or crippled, is linked to diseases like…
Some Washington Officials Sound Alarm on New Trumpcare Executive Order
The states insurance commissioner said the presidents decision to immediately halt payments could likely lead to a collapse of health insurance markets nationwide.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order relating to the Affordable Care Act that immediately discontinues billions of dollars in payments key to the law. According to a statement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the cost-sharing reductions (CSR) payments are being discontinued immediately through Trumps new order. This year, those…