Optum is closing a plant in Ohio, laying off 129 employees, according to a May 16 letter from Optum to the Rapid Response Program Administrator in that state. Optum gave the mandated WARN notice, the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.

Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic and St. Louis-based Mercy have formed a partnership in which the two organizations will de-identify patient data as they search for new ways to diagnose, treat and prevent disease.

Where possible, Cedars-Sinai likes to look for solutions within existing platforms, such as using Epic’s In-basket message-response technology, which queues up a draft to edit and send, says CIO Craig Kwiatkowski.