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| Aug 26, 2026 | Major Texas-based airlines ground humanoid robots as passengers | Two major airlines based in Texas are drawing a hard line between human and humanoid: American Airlines and Southwest Airlines won’t permit human-like or animal-like robots to board flights as passengers.
Fort Worth-based American and Dalla... |
| Aug 24, 2026 | Houston lands $14M in latest CPRIT grants to advance cancer, lab-on-chip research | Thanks to a $4 million grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, the University of Houston has recruited a top-tier researcher developing AI-powered lab-on-a-chip technology for early cancer detection.
Tianhong Cui, ... |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Intuitive Machines lands $600M satellite deal, NASA ‘spacecraft bus’ contract | Houston-based space infrastructure company Intuitive Machines has scored two astronomical deals.
The deals add to the company’s soaring success. As of June 30, Intuitive Machines had a record-high $1.8 billion backlog of orders, a $1.5 bill... |
| Aug 17, 2026 | $5B MD Anderson-anchored Austin medical center to break ground this fall | Construction on the $1 billion first phase of the AI-native University of Texas Dell Medical Center in Austin—which will feature a hospital operated by Houston’s UT MD Anderson Cancer Center—is set to start this fall.
The UT System Board of... |
| Aug 13, 2026 | UH scores $18M NIH grant for chronic disease research | The University of Houston has received a coveted $18.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to launch a program to address the root causes of chronic disease.
Only 22 institutions nationwide receive this NIH award, and the 5... |
| Aug 11, 2026 | Houston researchers develop dissolvable implant for targeted cancer drug delivery | Researchers at Houston Methodist have developed a biodegradable implant that can be used to safely and consistently deliver drug treatments to tumors and then dissolve without the need for further surgery.
The implant is only the size of a ... |
| Aug 4, 2026 | The Missing Discipline in Healthcare Modernization | Jonathan Cook, Chief Technology Officer at Clearsense
Modernization in healthcare is usually measured by what gets implemented next: an ERP platform replaced, EHR systems consolidated, a database moved to the cloud. But a successful go-live... |
| Oct 16, 2024 | Epic UGM 2024: 3 Enduring Takeaways | Epic’s Users Group Meeting (UGM) this year made one thing clear: AI adoption is accelerating, and fast. The developments we’re seeing are pushing the entire ecosystem of providers, payers, and patients to adapt. As a leader in AI medical co... |
| Aug 9, 2024 | HealthLeaders Exchange recognizes the next generation of finance leaders at UpNext CFO, December 5-6th in Nashville | UpNext CFO Exchange 2024
HealthLeaders Exchange, a leading healthcare C-level networking community, will bring together an exclusive panel of future leaders for the first annual UpNext CFO Exchange. This unique program will combine an ongoi... |
| Dec 1, 2023 | How to Improve Coding Quality to Prevent Denials, Reduce Payer Takebacks, and Improve Cash Flow | Quality coding is essential for a healthy revenue stream. Superior coding can reduce denials, improve cash flow, facilitate faster and more accurate reimbursement, and decrease “takebacks” and penalties. It is estimated that 42% of denials ... |
| Nov 28, 2023 | Embracing SDOH Data Monitoring for Transformative Healthcare | Christine Lee, Head of Health Partnerships at AnalyticsIQ
Understanding the multifaceted dimensions of patient wellness goes beyond the medical symptoms presented in a clinical setting. In order to maximize positive patient outcomes, health... |
| Jul 25, 2023 | San Francisco metro area lags other cities in retail health clinics | Data: Definitive Healthcare; Map: Axios Visuals
The U.S. has recorded a surge in retail health clinics in the last five years. The West, however, hasn't experienced the same boom, new data suggests.
Why it matters: Retail clinics, which are... |
| Jun 15, 2023 | BJC Healthcare Eyes $10 Billion Union With Saint Luke’s Health System: Is Consolidation Healthy Or A Case Of ‘Too Big To Fail,’ Too Big To Care? | ST. LOUIS, MO: Barnes-Jewish Hospital on May 8, 2020 (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. |
| May 22, 2023 | HCPro announces two days of revenue cycle education and networking at the Revenue Integrity Symposium, presented by NAHRI, September 18–19 in Charlotte, North Carolina | “Throughout the symposium we’re offering countless opportunities for attendees to engage personally and professionally with like-minded individuals across the healthcare spectrum,” says Nicole Votta, NAHRI director.
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| May 16, 2023 | Risant Health’s Value-Based Platform: A Signal Of Future Health System M&A? | If value-based care is healthcare’s Everest, could Risant Health’s platform play be one of the critical sherpas (doing all of the hard work) helping to get us there? Maybe. |
| Apr 13, 2023 | Online news publication Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare (PSQH) announces fifth annual Innovation Awards Winner: Ascension St. Mary’s Hospital | "The Quality HAI Team has been able to accomplish much without additional resources and limited staffing given the post-COVID staffing and clinical environment,” says Karen Vargas, regional director of quality, patient safety, and regu... |
| Apr 13, 2023 | Online news publication Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare (PSQH) announces fifth annual Innovation Awards Winner: Ascension St. Mary's Hospital | The PSQH Innovation Awards recognize healthcare organizations that overcame patient safety or quality improvement challenges in 2022. This year's winning submission is from Ascension St. Mary's Hospital on how it revamped process workflows ... |
| Apr 10, 2023 | NAHRI to host its 6th annual Revenue Integrity Week from June 5–9 to celebrate and support the healthcare revenue integrity profession. | To help raise awareness of the profession, NAHRI will be offering free resources, education, research reports, and exclusive discounts throughout Revenue Integrity Week.
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| Apr 10, 2023 | NAHRI to host its 6th annual Revenue Integrity Week from June 5–9 to celebrate and support the healthcare revenue integrity profession. | As revenue integrity professionals play an increasingly vital role in their organizations, the National Association of Healthcare Revenue Integrity (NAHRI) recognizes the exemplary work these professionals do to improve their organization's... |
| Feb 9, 2023 | If You Don’t Know What Your Health Care Costs, It’s Time To Speak Up And Ask A Doctor | Doctor Nelia Sanchez-Crespo examines a patient at the Research Centers of America in Hollywood, ... [+] Florida, on August 13, 2020. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images |
| Feb 8, 2023 | Biden’s SOTU Targets Drug Companies, But Misses Opportunity To Challenge Health Insurers And Pharmacy Benefit Managers | In January, drug makers announce increases in list prices of drugs, which can negatively impact ... [+] patients. Health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers also implement changes in drug coverage, to the detriment of patients.getty |
| Feb 6, 2023 | Mindstrong’s demise and the future of mental health care | One of the shinier entrants to have emerged in the world of mental health startups abruptly announced last week it would wind down, right in the middle of an ongoing crisis in mental health care. Mindstrong, which had raised a total of $160... |
| Jan 25, 2023 | Ketamine is being sold as a depression wonder drug. For some, it's making everything worse. | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Three years ago, Jared* a 31-year-old venture capitalist, sat in a purple recliner wearing an eye mask, ambient music pulsing through his B... |
| Jan 16, 2023 | Digital Maturity Is Six Steps Away. How Close Is Your Healthcare Organization? | Chris Byers, CEO of Formstack
The healthcare industry dragged sorely behind other industries in digital maturity just three years ago, according to McKinsey. Then, the pandemic shifted priorities and accelerated the progress of digital tran... |
| Nov 28, 2022 | Digital health news, funding round up in the prior week; November 28, 2022 | Merck acquired Imago BioSciences; care.ai raised $27 million; HC9 Ventures launched $83M fund
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A coalition of anti-abortion medical groups and providers sued the Food and Drug Administration, challenging the agency’s decades-... |
| Nov 11, 2022 | HealthLeaders Exchange Announces UpNext, a New Community for Next-Generation Healthcare Leaders | UpNext, a new leadership community for emerging healthcare leaders, will recognize inaugural honorees at a live event March 2023 in Austin, TX.
BRENTWOOD, Tenn., Nov. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- HealthLeaders Exchange, a leading industry... |
| Oct 5, 2022 | Bellevue College Announces Expansion of Nursing Program | The T Building on the BC campus where most nursing classes are held “With historic unemployment, we know that most Washingtonians are currently working. And we know many of our students are balancing family responsibilities too. We must mee... |
| Sep 6, 2022 | 6 AI companies disrupting healthcare in 2022 | Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here.
Investments in AI-enabled healthcare have exploded over the past few years. But even with belt-tightening in 2022, digi... |
| Sep 2, 2022 | Inside Amazon Care's downfall: Employees reveal how Amazon got in its own way when it tried to take on the healthcare industry | Amazon said it's shutting down its Amazon Care business on August 24. Amazon Care; Rachel Mendelson/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Jul 19, 2022 | Gas Prices Hurt People Going To The Doctor, But Interstate Telehealth Can Help | Everyone can’t help but notice that since the end of 2020, prices at the pump have nearly doubled across America. Gas costs $4.50 a gallon in Texas, $4.40 in Missouri, and over $6.00 in California. This means double the cost for road trips,... |
| Jun 20, 2022 | HealthLeaders expands into the post-acute care market with the launch of new resources. | “HealthLeaders' addition of post-acute products to its portfolio expands our reach into the entire continuum of care and post-acute leadership, understanding the intersection between the organizations and providing complete coverage and ana... |
| May 25, 2022 | HCPro announces the return of the Revenue Integrity Symposium, presented by NAHRI this fall, September 19–20, in Phoenix, Arizona | We’re excited to offer two days of unparalleled education for revenue cycle professionals.
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HCPro is excited to announce the return of the Revenue Integrity Symposium (RIS), presented by the National Ass... |
| Apr 12, 2022 | Amid the nation’s mental health crisis, we need more psychiatrists now | Every day, people call my office looking for help: A loved one has not left their bed in a week. A father is experiencing panic symptoms while preparing his children for school. A young woman is using substances in a way that feels dangerou... |
| Apr 8, 2022 | When Healthcare Goes Remote, It Should Be For A Reason | Dr. Corey Scurlock MD, MBA is the CEO & Founder of Equum Medical. |
| Apr 7, 2022 | HCPro’s NAHRI celebrates 5th annual Revenue Integrity Week June 6–10, 2022, to recognize and advance the revenue integrity profession. | “Revenue Integrity Week is a time to celebrate the accomplishments of revenue integrity professionals and the critical contributions they make to healthcare organizations.”
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| Mar 30, 2022 | HealthLeaders, a leading healthcare media brand, expands into the pharmaceutical and biotechnology markets | "The new vertical will provide in-depth analyses on the developments and trends impacting the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries … as the lines that define all healthcare industry segments have blurred in recent years."
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| Mar 22, 2022 | Highmark Blue Cross Reaps $440 Million Profit As Insurer Expands Into New Regions | Highmark Health, parent of Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in four states, reported $440 million in ... [+] profits for 2021 as the company grew its health insurance and medical care provider businesses, the company said March 22, 2022. Th... |
| Dec 2, 2021 | HealthLeaders Launches New Resources to Help Healthcare Executives with Supply Chain Resiliency | Hospital supply chain executives are looking for supply chain efficiencies as they think about the future and their needs for predictable business processes, especially in times of crisis.
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| Nov 23, 2021 | Interoperability Is Key To Care Coordination | President of Bamboo Health. 20+ years of healthcare/tech experience with leadership roles at McKinsey and Company, Anthem, and Healthways. |
| Nov 5, 2021 | Contributed: Improving healthcare productivity with automation and opportunities for startups | Photo: Me789 Studio/Getty Images |
| Sep 13, 2021 | HealthLeaders' New Line of Product Offerings Creates Insights, Networking, Community Opportunities for Healthcare Marketing Executives | "Healthcare marketing executives have the advantage and exclusive access to thought leadership, networking, and community by tapping into HealthLeaders' growing suite of healthcare marketing products."
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| Sep 7, 2021 | America’s provider shortage: Can digital health resuscitate our broken care delivery system? | America’s Provider Shortage: Can Digital Health Resuscitate Our Broken Care Delivery System?
Have you ever wondered why it takes so long to schedule an appointment with your primary care provider? Or why wait times for specialists — from OB... |
| Sep 2, 2021 | Hospital mergers and acquisitions are a bad deal for patients. Why aren’t they being stopped? | Contrary to what health care executives advertise, hospital mergers and acquisitions aren’t good for patients. They rarely improve access to health care or its quality, and they don’t reduce prices. But the system in place to stop them is o... |
| Aug 11, 2021 | Accolade : 5 tips on how to talk to your CFO about healthcare advocacy | HR professionals know that healthcare costs continue to rise faster than inflation. Their chief financial officers (CFO) know it too. If you believe that personalized advocacycan help save costs, how do you convince your CFO?
Here are five ... |
| Aug 3, 2021 | Why Cerner could win its EHR tug-of-war with Epic | The news: Electronic health records (EHR) giant Cerner released its Q2 2021 results: Its revenues jumped 10% since Q2 2020, from $1.3 billion to nearly $1.5 billion.
Despite the overall hikes in revenues, its operating margin fell from 11% ... |
| Jul 7, 2021 | “The Doctor Will See You Now” and Other Things Patients Won’t Hear Post-COVID | Arun K. Buduri, VP – Engineering/IT and CISO, Innovaccer
Following a year of social distancing and strict lockdowns, patients were forced to fundamentally change the way they interacted with their physicians. By April of last year, about ha... |
| Jun 24, 2021 | HealthLeaders launches two new digital publications for healthcare payers and HR management | "We are working to connect our readers to the people and resources that can put them in a better position to accelerate their strategic initiatives.”
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The 2020 pandemic completely altered the way h... |
| Apr 9, 2021 | HealthLeaders Launches ‘Leading Through the Pandemic’ Sweepstakes to Recognize Members of the Healthcare Industry | “Over the past year we have shared stories about the remarkable efforts of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. This sweepstakes offers the opportunity to recognize those who have made personal sacrifices through their dedicatio... |
| Apr 5, 2021 | HealthLeaders announces the launch of two women in healthcare leadership features, a quarterly report and monthly podcast | “There are so many amazing women leaders in the healthcare sector, and I'm excited to give them a platform to share their career journeys, speak about their organizations, and to offer insights for future executives in the industry."
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| Jan 4, 2021 | HCPro and sub-brands DecisionHealth and HealthLeaders unveil new logos reinforcing their mission to support healthcare facilities across all settings. | “We wanted to create unity across our healthcare brands HCPro, DecisionHealth, and HealthLeaders as our clients continue to leverage solutions from all three.”
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| Jan 4, 2021 | Healthcare Report Card: Companies That Failed To Meet Expectations In 2020 | NurPhoto via Getty Images |
| Dec 18, 2020 | Patient Engagement In The Era Of Covid-19 | Over the past year, the healthcare industry has undergone unprecedented change as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. From the availability of telemedicine visits to drive-in waiting rooms at the doctor’s office, patients and physicians alik... |
| Dec 18, 2020 | HealthLeaders is excited to announce the launch of a new technology e-newsletter | Healthcare IT plays an essential role in delivering the resources and solutions required to meet the needs of all stakeholders in a healthcare system.
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The healthcare industry has experienced rapid ... |
| Nov 23, 2020 | In the uncompensated care pandemic, AI is a potent antidote | Unfortunately, the problem of uncompensated care will only get worse as the pandemic progresses and its economic toll worsens. In the first half of 2020, 43% of Americans were uninsured, had gaps in their insurance, or were unable to afford... |
| Oct 18, 2020 | Technology’s role in streamlining processes and lowering costs in the fight against Covid-19 | In payer organizations as well, technology has a decidedly critical role in keeping costs low and efficiency high, which in turn enables organizations to avoid negative impacts during crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic. So what are some w... |
| Oct 16, 2020 | Medicare's Ratings Update Shows Growing Focus On Patient Experience | President/CEO at Healthcare Solutions Direct, LLC, a nationwide insurance agency focused primarily on the retiree health market |
| Sep 22, 2020 | What Digital Health Entrepreneurs And Investors Can Do To Combat Disparities In Health | In 2002 the average life expectancy for a person born in the United States had reached 77 years old, an increase of 7 years over a forty year period, reflecting an impressive 10 percent gain. Yet beneath the surface, there were glaring disp... |
| Aug 4, 2020 | What rural hospitals can teach their urban counterparts about patient engagement | For all hospitals, healthcare IT (HIT) must figure prominently in their route to recovery.
For rural hospitals, necessity is the mother of invention when it comes to improving patient engagement and outcomes while protecting revenue. Rather... |
| Jul 30, 2020 | Technology-Centric Healthcare is Here to Stay, Thanks to COVID-19 | It seems so simplistic to talk about the way we used to deliver healthcare, in a pre-COVID-19 world. We moved around in close proximity to our patients and delivered care mainly up close and in person. But, technology-centric healthcare is ... |
| May 6, 2020 | I’m a nurse in a Covid-19 unit. My hospital’s leaders frighten me more than the virus | I’ve been a nurse for almost 10 years, working mainly on a hospital’s cardiac floor.
One day I was assigned to a makeshift intensive care unit that had previously been an observation unit for highly stable patients waiting for test results.... |
| Apr 17, 2020 | Navigating nurse burnout in response to COVID-19 | Healthcare employers must respond to the concerns of their nurses and work to implement systems that help medical staff feel prepared and supported as tensions reach an all-time high. Implementing digital workplace technology that centraliz... |
| Mar 4, 2020 | New Antibiotics Face Major Development And Reimbursement Hurdles | A microbiologist pulls a bacteria sample from a test tube at the Infectious Disease Laboratory, ... [+] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (AP Photo/David Goldman)ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| Mar 1, 2020 | The year of healthcare integration | Each year in the healthcare industry we see new ideas and technology rise up to meet society’s needs. In 2019, the healthcare industry saw $2.6B in funding go to virtual care while healthcare policy became more receptive to technological so... |
| Feb 7, 2020 | How to recognize and implement quality interpreting (Hint: It doesn’t involve your bilingual staff) | Sadly, there is no shortage of stories like that of Willie Ramirez, a young man who was left paraplegic after a hospital visit because of the misinterpretation of the word intoxicado as “intoxicated” rather than its true meaning, which impl... |
| Dec 10, 2019 | How Myia Health’s Partnership with Mercy Virtual Is a Window into the Future of Continuous Care | For all of the amazing drugs and surgical procedures developed over the past decade, the most impactful development may be technology’s role in ongoing doctor-patient interactions.
A 2018 metastudy published in the medical journal BMJ Open ... |
| Sep 30, 2019 | What drives healthcare costs lower: Cures vs treatments? | At Invent Health, not all panelists agreed about whether better care equals cheaper care
It's pretty well known that healthcare costs are rising, while the quality of care in the United States continues to lag behind many other countries. I... |
| Sep 16, 2019 | Firefly Health raises $10.2M to overhaul primary care | Jonathan Bush, co-founder of athenahealth, is now the company's Executive Chairman
The U.S. healthcare system has two big problems: while costs are rising, with spending per person increasing 4.2 percent in 2017, even as the use of healthca... |
| Aug 2, 2019 | Reinventing the doctor - week 3 | Keith Rabois (Founders Fund), Dr. Michael Abramoff (IDx), Dr. Arif Nathoo (Komodo Health) and more
Welcome to "Reinventing the doctor" - week 3, my weekly curation of news and information around the Internet that's relevant to our... |
| Aug 1, 2019 | Why health companies are branding themselves as tech companies | From digital health startups to primary care groups, companies are increasingly branding themselves as tech companies first, health care companies second. Shunning ties to the mission-driven health care sector may seem counterintuitive at b... |
| May 21, 2019 | Ignoring evidence begot Medicare’s dangerous hospital readmissions penalty | Federal programs designed to cut costs and improve health by penalizing doctors and hospitals are failing at an alarming rate. Some of them actually harm patients, and many don’t cut costs. One in particular, the Hospital Readmissions Reduc... |
| May 15, 2019 | John Arnold: Trump administration’s good effort on drug rebates is bad policy | Earlier this month, the Congressional Budget Office delivered bad news for anyone hoping for a quick fix on the high price of prescription drugs. The CBO projected that a rule proposed in January by the Department of Health and Human Servic... |
| Apr 11, 2019 | Why some health system merger plans work out but others are nixed — and why you should care | In October, two Texas healthcare giants — Baylor Scott & White Health in Dallas and Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston — signed a letter of intent to form a new health system. Just four months later in February, they scrapped the... |
| Apr 2, 2019 | Digital health funding dips in Q1 2019, Rock Health report finds | Rock Health found that during Q1 of this year, about 25 percent of deal flow focused on care coordination and disease monitoring. “This focus appears to be, at least in part, a response to improved reimbursement for digital solutions, speci... |
| Mar 7, 2019 | Health care price tags won’t find you the best doctor | Say you want to know which baseball players provide the most value for the big dollars they’re being paid. A Google search quickly yields analytics. But suppose your primary care physician just diagnosed you with cancer. What will a search ... |
| Dec 28, 2018 | 3 Trends Impacting Digital Health Strategy & Leadership Roles in 2019 | As always, this year was full of interesting developments in healthcare. As the year comes to a close, we’ve rounded up three trends that we feel are going to significantly impact the landscape of health tech and digital health in 2019 and ... |
| Dec 13, 2018 | How traditional pharmacies can survive the Amazon threat | Are traditional pharmacies doomed to the same fate as Borders, Blockbuster, and Sears? The threat is real.
Companies like Capsule and PillPack are redesigning the pharmacy for the digital age. In addition to making it effortless to get pres... |
| Dec 20, 2017 | How A Signing Bonus Could Be Your Student Loan Silver Bullet | Image Courtesy of Student Loan Hero Student Loan Hero |
| Jun 21, 2017 | White House Plan To Reduce Drug Prices… Is To EXTEND Patents? | While Congress is still doing its thing to try to make the US healthcare system an even bigger laughingstock around the world, the White House is apparently considering an executive order targeting high drug prices. Of course, it handed thi... |
| Aug 16, 2016 | This Will Be the Country’s Largest Jobs Sector in 3 Years or Less | This piece originally appeared on Monster.com.
Where do you see yourself three years from now? For the majority of Americans, the answer to that question may involve a job in health care.
Paid Content How can you protect what you can't see?... |
| May 26, 2016 | The omnichannel customer experience is poised to take off in regulated industries | Clara Shih Contributor
Clara Shih is the founder and CEO of Hearsay Social.
The omnichannel customer experience is nothing new, especially in the consumer and retail industries. Many companies and brands are using data and automation techno... |
| May 9, 2016 | New medical schools aim to fix America’s broken health care system | AUSTIN — New medical schools are launching across the country to address a projected physician shortage. They’re promising innovative curriculums that let aspiring doctors spend time doing research, working in community health settings, and... |
| Mar 1, 2016 | Electronic records didn’t eliminate medical errors, they just created some new ones | Spurred by the 2009 stimulus package and the 2010 health reform law, the federal government has offered hospitals financial incentives to adopt electronic health records that, among other things, will add efficiency and reduce errors by lin... |
| Jun 3, 2015 | Fitbit could raise as much as $478M in IPO, House panel votes to repeal medical device tax (Morning Read) | LIFE SCIENCE
Pfizer, GE team up on cancer research.
The White House will launch the first fight on antibiotic resistance in order to spread awareness about proper use of antibiotics to prevent drug-resistant superbugs.
Are the positive resu... |
| Aug 15, 2014 | Is the ED Best Area to Track and Measure the Patient Experience? | 66 percent of healthcare leaders agree that the ED is a critical area tool to track and measure the patient experience, according to a new independent HealthLeaders Media Premium report. The report includes data from a survey of the 7,000-m... |
| Jun 3, 2014 | Five differences between consumer and patient sensor technologies | The technology industry has been buzzing of late because of the big players entering the wearable sensor market. We are very familiar with Misfit, Nike’s Fuelband and the Fitbit for some time. Others investing into the sector include Intel,... |
| Feb 12, 2014 | Verizon, WellPoint, CVS, Walgreens ally with former senators to push telehealth policy reform | The American Telemedicine Association says half of all hospitals use some form of telemedicine today. The Veterans Affairs Department has been somewhat of a pioneer, investing $500 million last year on technology to enable remote care of ve... |
| Nov 15, 2013 | When evaluating physician and nurse shortages, consider the source | So yes, let’s have a rational discourse about workforce needs and consider training more people when appropriate. But let’s not get too worked up by self-interested attempts to boost the medical and nursing school industries.
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| Oct 24, 2013 | Cybersecurity lapse costs AvMed $3M | MassDevice.com On Call | MASSDEVICE ON CALL — AvMed Inc. agreed to update its digital security protocols and pay $3 million to settle a class action lawsuit accusing the company of liability after a 2009 security breach.
AvMed reported the theft of some of its lapt... |
| Oct 10, 2013 | Gowns and gloves in the ICU: Part of the infection control solution | The researchers did not find a statistically significant reduction in another bacteria, vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus, (VRE) or in a combination outcome of either VRE or MRSA ,which [study author] Harris says was surprising.
“However, d... |
| Sep 30, 2013 | As more health systems offer health insurance, health IT fills niche | In a statement Frank Williams, CEO of Evolent, said: “With our physician and provider partners, Evolent is able to fully align with the clinical and financial imperatives of the health care system. With this investment, we can extend our re... |
| Jun 18, 2013 | Healthcare leaders to Senate finance committee: “Transparency can only go so far” | So while measures like CMS releasing chargemaster data have gotten the ball rolling, it will take more than just pushing out data to effect change in the system.
Dr. Paul Ginsburg, president of the Center for Studying Health System Change, ... |
| Apr 1, 2013 | Hospitals report family & internal medicine practices remain top targets for acquisition | Hospital M&A is not a new trend, although it has picked up considerably with the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the creation of accountable care organizations. But the fact that physicians are looki... |
| Jan 28, 2013 | When doctors feel pain after a medical mistake | Medical providers are often referred to as the “second victim” of medical mistakes. (iStock photo)
by Blair Hickman, ProPublica
Dr. David Ring, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and board certified orthopedic and hand surgeon... |
| Nov 21, 2012 | New healthcare angel fund wants disruptive ideas to reduce wasteful spending in acute care | “We will not look at a deal where we’re just investing dollars,” he said. “Even though our commodity is money, our value is the expertise that we can bring to these companies.”
Mayernik founded Healthcare Waste Solutions, a company that hel... |
| Oct 29, 2012 | 4 ways alarm fatigue is being improved by the medical device and healthcare industries | The risk posed by alarm fatigue has been around since the invention of the EKG machine, observes Frassica. But since the FDA made it a priority, some of the focus has shifted to taking a look at the amount of information being generated. It... |
| Aug 20, 2012 | Dermatologists establish ‘instant online practices’ with remote diagnosis network | To do that, DermLink has portals for three different populations: patients, dermatologists and general practice physicians. A patient can organically initiate an online consultation with a DermLink dermatologist, and the system will match t... |
| Aug 2, 2012 | Things are about to get interesting | By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC
It was a chance encounter.
After all it’s not every day you see an internist who still frequents a hospital. We’ve known each other for years and he’s been watching the changes in health care, too.
"Boy, t... |
| Jun 24, 2012 | Supreme Court Decision On Obamacare Has Little Relevance To Healthcare Disrupters | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| Apr 23, 2012 | Device tax opposition gaining steam? | Opponents of the impending 2.3% medical device tax seem to be getting louder, as their voices appear in more news outlets and in more contexts as the levy looms in the near future.
The tax, contained in President Barack Obama’s landmark Aff... |
