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Housecall Providers, a local healthcare nonprofit, has hired Gwen Schwartz as director of development. Schwartz brings with her a wealth of experience in marketing and fundraising for healthcare organizations across the Portland metropolitan area.

The conference will host leading scientists, researchers, and health professionals to continue our robust dialogue on the interrelationship between the environment, health, and healthcare practices.

America’s largest tobacco company made a big investment in Oregon legislators before the 2013 session and walked away with a legislative victory when a bill died on the Senate floor that would have sent unclaimed money from class-action lawsuits into an account for legal services for the poor.

Cover Oregon has given up on having a fully functional website by the end of open enrollment on March 31. “We do not intend to launch the portal this month,” said Aaron Karjala, the Cover Oregon chief information officer. “The runway to getting the enrollments is too short. We can’t be assured it will improve our performance to get us to maximum enrollment.”

Built on the Caradigm Intelligence Platform, Acuere QOL delivers clinical and claims data to community health centers to enable analytics and population healh management 

It came as no surprise when the Public Employees Benefit Board decided to sign contracts with their current insurers – Providence Health Plan and Kaiser Permanente – rejecting a joint proposal by Regence BlueCross BlueShield and PacificSource – for the state’s 130,000 employees, their dependents and university employees.

A rift is brewing between physical therapists in private practice and their state association after Regence BlueCross BlueShield signed a contract with an out-of-state company to manage patient care.

The Oregon Health Authority is receiving thousands of calls every day about Oregon Health Plan enrollment, OHP ombudsman Ellen Pinney told Health Share of Oregon’s Community Advisory Council last week.

New Avalere analysis finds that exchange enrollment is on track to reach 5.4 million by the end of March when open enrollment is set to end. That number falls short of current Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that six million people will enroll in exchanges in 2014.

Douglas County believes healthcare transformation involves more than just access to insurance; it means access to reliable health information from trusted sources, and people talking about healthcare issues that concern them, while listening to others.