Health Care
University of Iowa Health Care to purchase last building from Mercy Iowa City bankruptcy
University of Iowa Health Care is looking to grow its Downtown Campus with a proposal to purchase the last building from the Mercy Iowa City bankruptcy estate. The university requested approval from the Iowa Board of Regents Sept. 17 to…
A long April
CBJ Editorial Some businesses are experiencing a massive slowdown or near complete cessation of operations,…
Hospitals providing temp housing for area HC staff
Inside one of the temporary rooms being offered to health care workers at Mercy Medical…
Iowa jobless claims set another weekly record
By CBJ News Staff [email protected] The number of new unemployment claims in Iowa during the…
Corridor hospitals prepared as coronavirus spreads
UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids, shown in a file photo. CREDIT…
Total worker health begins with the job
Dr. Casey Chosewood, speaking at the CBJ’s Health Care Summit about new research into total…
IHA CEO gives Iowa good marks on health care
“Uniformly, Iowa performs very well on about any kind of metric you want to put…
IDx secures $33M in funding as AI heats up
A patient experiences a screening by IDx’s AI-driven diagnostic system, IDx-DR, in an undated photo.…
Iowa City’s IDx finally in the fast lane
Decades after embracing the potential of AI to diagnose eye disease, University of Iowa retina…
The best flu tracker? Your smartphone
University of Iowa researchers were able to predict flu activity weeks ahead of the CDC…
CBJ Q&A: Elisabeth Kissling, Foundation 2
By CBJ Editorial Board [email protected] Elisabeth Kissling has been with Foundation 2 since 2001 –…
Begin the conversation of making medical decisions
By Mike Heinrich/Guest Column What would you do if you needed someone to speak on…
Providing quality health care access close to home
By Ted Townsend / Guest Column There’s an axiom that all health care, like politics,…
Wellmark, UI Health Alliance partner on new health insurer
By Angela Holmes [email protected] Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, the state’s largest health insurer, and…
Seeing the future though predictive analytics
By Jean Robillard, M.D./Guest Column Predictive analytics – the use of data, statistical algorithms and…