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Listening To Patients To Cut Costs
Health care costs in the United States are in the trillions, and finding solutions to cut costs are becoming critical for medical care sustainability. During a conversation with health leaders about health care cost-cutting, experts made a simple argument: listen to patients. During the discussion, which took place Tuesday at Fortune magazine’s Brainstorm Health conference…
Geisinger Takes Aim at Rural Patient Transportation Issues with Pilot Program
Danville, Pennsylvania-based Geisinger has created a transportation program with rabbittransit, a public transportation provider for patients in York, Pennsylvania, who need help getting to and from medical appointments. The pilot program was announced by Jaewon Ryu, MD, executive vice president and CMO of Geisinger at a company-sponsored event earlier this month. Geisinger is proposing two…
A Look at the Healthcare Sector Ahead of Upcoming Earnings
The health care sector finished in the red in 2016, but made a comeback in 2017, finishing the year up 21.7%. Early 2018 shows the sector’s performance in line with the S&P 500, although certainly their numbers are subject to change. While a few companies have not reported their earnings, some estimates have been made…
Controlling Health Care Costs by Listening to Patients
It’s no secret that the cost of health care in the U.S. has reached critical proportions. Estimated to be in the trillions annually, finding ways to cut costs is an urgent matter. While medical care has a lot of moving parts with issues that are complex to navigate, there may one simple solution: listen to…
Geisinger Takes Aim at Rural Patient Transportation Issues with Pilot Program
Danville, Pennsylvania-based Geisinger has created a transportation program with rabbittransit, a public transportation provider for patients in York, Pennsylvania, who need help getting to and from medical appointments. The pilot program was announced by Jaewon Ryu, MD, executive vice president and CMO of Geisinger at a company-sponsored event earlier this month. Geisinger is proposing two…
Working Toward Universal Connectivity in Drug Delivery
HealthPrize Technologies is teaming up again with West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc., to incorporate additional features into the system they developed a few years ago aimed at rewarding patient behavior that complied with their injectable drug regimen. The past three years have seen much success, but they have also seen continual evolution in patient reaction and…
How Play Spaces Help Hospitalized Children Heal
Photo credit: PLAYTIME From the doctors and nurses to the front-desk staff and decision makers, professionals in children’s hospitals and medical centers go above and beyond to help their young patients. However, there is one thing many of these centers miss: designated play spaces. Adding these spaces can help younger patients heal both emotionally and physically….
Tidel Healthcare Solutions
The healthcare landscape is rapidly evolving, and many organizations across the globe are adjusting at breakneck speeds to manage change in every facet of their business. One example of this dynamic pertains to hospitals. Several hospital conglomerates have made targeted investments in order to adapt to changing consumer lifestyles. From more inviting waiting room areas…
Why Your Employee Benefits Package Should Include Financial Wellness
While healthy eating and regular exercise are essential, these are not the only aspects for comprehensive wellness. Research continues to show that people should focus on spiritual, emotional, and financial fitness as well. An important, and often overlooked, component in achieving comprehensive wellness is financial wellness, a significant stressor for many employees. Financial wellness programs…
Joan Oloff is Making Fashion More Functional
All too often, our choice of wardrobe comes down to function or fashion. We sacrifice comfort to look good, or we sacrifice taste so that we can be comfortable during long days on the job. Increasingly, however, companies are seeking to create pants, dress shirts and shoes that combine runway aesthetic with around-the-house comfort. In…
Amazon’s Health Tech Team Is Proof Of Their Recruiting
Details about Amazon’s ambitions in healthcare are still sparse at this point, but the online retail giant appears to be building an all-star team to lead the new venture. Earlier this year Amazon announced a partnership with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase to create a new venture aimed at lowering healthcare costs and improving quality…
How to take advantage of smart lighting
“Smart” lighting using an interconnected system delivers many advantages to building management, occupants and owners. For example, smart lighting can streamline building maintenance, allow for monitoring of light fixtures and, importantly, diagnose potential problems throughout a large facility before a major breakdown occurs. Going further, smart lighting is useful for creating the appropriate character and…
LISTEN: TPC Provides Advantages for Community-Based Hospitals
Geoff Brenner, President and CEO of TPC, recently joined MarketScale Healthcare for their podcast series. Geoff discussed how TPC supports community-based hospitals who desire to remain independent. By working together as a single system, TPC Members can drive the economies of scale that hospitals need to remain financially viable. TPC’s synergetic platform provides all…
HNA Sells Their Share of Hilton
HNA Group Co. sold its Hilton Grand Vacations Inc. shares for $1.1 billion, the once-acquisitive Chinese conglomerate’s latest asset disposal to repay debts. HNA sold 22.3 million shares at $46.25 a share, or 1.6 percent below the stock’s latest closing price, according to a statement late Wednesday. Separately, HNA sold 2.5 million shares back to…
Gulf Coast Pain Institute Gets Restructured
The transaction builds upon BGL’s market leadership position in advising physician practices and related ancillary services. GCPI represents the third transaction for BGL’s Healthcare & Life Sciences investment banking practice in the pain management specialty in less than two years. Founded in 2013, Gulf Coast Pain Institute is the leading interventional pain management practice in…
AI & Analytics Are The Cornerstones of Digital Healthcare
In his first State of the Clinic, Cleveland Clinic CEO Tom Mihaljevic, MD, called on the health system’s 57,000 employees around the world to focus on caring: “how we care for patients, care for each other, care for the organization, and care for our communities,” he urged. Mihaljevic succeeded Toby Cosgrove, MD, who held the…
VR Pain Management Study Finds Samsung As A Partner
At HIMSS last week, Samsung announced a partnership with Travelers Insurance, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Bayer, and AppliedVR around using virtual reality for pain management. Samsung and Travelers will fund a 16-month study of between 90 and 140 patients, conducted at Cedars using technology from Samsung, Bayer, and AppliedVR. “We just completed a randomized control trial…
Intel’s Lama Nachman and Work With Stephen Hawking
The late Stephen Hawking’s computer-driven voice was developed by Nada Nachman, a ground-breaking computer engineer at Intel. The technology she created for Hawking is open source, allowing other researchers to use her initial work to design more communication systems for other people suffering from motor neurone and paralytic disease. Raised in Kuwait, Nachman is a…
HP Diversifies Offerings With New Healthcare Solutions At HIMSS 2018
2018 is the year for all things HP. Before the completion of a first quarter that saw the release of a new line of notebooks and PCs, followed by the debut of their smart assistant voice applications, the company is now unveiling a new lineup of devices specifically geared towards the healthcare industry. HP’s reported…
Next Big European IPO Is In Medical Diagnostics
Siemens AG’s big IPO is in the pipeline and due to begin trading March 16, 2018. They are making a big bet on selling equipment that analyzes blood and other medical samples. Ironically it’s a segment of their business that hasn’t enjoyed much success, and comes at the same time they launched a new diagnostics…
Siri and Alexa Changing How Europeans Get Health Information
Voice assistance apps like Siri and Alexa are being utilized by a growing number of European doctors. In Spain, for example, 24% of physicians already use these apps, and a poll found that half of the doctors surveyed were interested in this technology. Patients are also intrigued, with 45% of Europeans expressing interest in voice…
Escalier Biosciences Scores $19 Million in Funding Supporting Therapies for Psoriasis and Other Autoimmune Diseases
Escalier Biosciences and its dermatologic and autoimmune targets received a $19 million series B round funding from European Venture Capital firms Forbion, New Science Ventures and BioGeneration. “Escalier’s team has an impressive track record of developing novel compounds targeting diseases with significant unmet medical need,” stated Marco Boorsma, general partner at Forbion who will join…
MediXall Group, Inc.’s New Healthcare Platform
As the Obama Administration’s Affordable Healthcare Act (ACA) remains under constant attack and still fails to deliver the lower rates and better coverage promised, other companies are moving in with their own healthcare solutions. MediXall Group, Inc is one of those companies seeking high-quality coverage for uninsured or under-insured consumers. Their network providers are credentialed,…
A New Startup Promises to Preserve Your Brain Intact
If your end-of-life goals include preserving your brain completely intact at the synaptic level so it can potentially be reproduced in microdetail in the distant future and your consciousness reborn, then you’re in luck! A company called Nectome, with financial support from the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health and the startup accelerator Y Combinator,…
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