Today’s Healthcare Headlines:
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Crowd-sourced contest developer InnoCentive buys OmniCompete
Waltham, Mass.-based InnoCentive, which works with companies to develop online tools for crowd-sourced problem-solving, has acquired OmniCompete, a U.K-based developer of online competitions.
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HIMSS names three as clinician IT leaders
Nurses Carol Bickford and Kathleen Smith and Dr. Russell Leftwich were named winners of the Chicago-based Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s clinician information technology leadership awards.
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HCA to pay special dividend of $1 billion
HCA, Nashville, announced it would be paying a special dividend to shareholders worth a total of about $1 billion, as it announced fourth-quarter earnings of $1.9 billion.
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Longtime hospice advocate Labyak dies
Mary Labyak, a pioneer of the U.S. hospice movement, died Saturday from lymphoma, according to a spokesman for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.
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NIH launches consumer clinical-trials site
The National Institutes of Health has launched a new website aimed at educating the…

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