Sutter Health

Sutter Health | August 22, 2017

Sacramento, California-based Sutter Health and startup Quartet Health will work together to improve ways of diagnosing and delivering care to residents living with mental health conditions, which are often connected to chronic physical illnesses....

Healthcare IT News | May 16, 2018

Sutter Health faced more than a day of downtime of its Epic EHR and an outage of internal communications this week after the activation of a fire suppression system in one of its data centers, officials said. All systems currently are back online. The outage began late Monday night and impacted all 24 hospitals in the California-based health system, according to an internal memo obtained by the Press Democrat. The outage affected certain information systems, the service desk and some of its phon...

Fierce Healthcare | May 17, 2018

Sutter Health is calling on a San Francisco court to throw out the state's suit against it alleging anticompetitive practices, saying the case could lead regulations that would significantly hurt the system's bottom line. In documents (PDF) filed Monday in San Francisco Superior Court, Sutter says that the case would force the courts to get involved in regulatory issues that are already overseen by the executive and judicial branches. It argued that courts are "ill-suited" to m...

Healthcare Finance | April 05, 2019

Sutter Health|Aetna has added Stanford Health Care to its network of providers. Sutter Health|Aetna is the joint venture launched last year between the Sacramento, California-based health system and the national insurer. It offers self-insured preferred provider organization health plans to businesses in the Northern California area. It has grown to about 50 plan sponsors across 15 counties. This represents another expanded partnership between a provider and payer, though this is in the commerci...