Friction in accessing digital healthcare services may be a fixable barrier for low-income patients. Beginning in July 2022, as part of a larger focus on the ConnectedEconomy™, PYMNTS began tracking day-to-day connectivity, specifically between U.S. income brackets, comparing the habits of the country’s highest- and lowest-paid consumers....
It’s a jungle out there — of healthcare provider and insurance payer portals — and that’s a lot of trouble to go to when accessing a test result or paying a doctor’s bill. It cries for unification. That’s exactly what’s happening, as the concept of...
Some unpaid medical bills will disappear from credit reports. But the hit and miss of collections will continue to hurt providers and patients. As has been well-documented, the three major credit bureaus are removing medical debt below $500. But even after the reporting agencies’ changes...
PYMNTS’ latest research on the healthcare space shows that 3 in 4 United States consumers made at least one payment for a healthcare product or service in the past 12 months, and many experienced at least one pain point in the process. Although consumers still...
Digital prescriptions have opened up the market for pharmacy services in the U.K. In the days of paper prescriptions, a handful of high street pharmacists dominated the market, but with the advent of electronic prescriptions and their widespread adoption by the National Health Service (NHS),...
As costs climb, it may finally be time for health insurance companies to grow out of legacy paper check systems. In our ever-increasingly connected digital age, an industry-wide reliance on analog solutions seems almost quaint — until one realizes the expense involved in this dependence....
ShiftMed has raised $200 million to expand its digital healthcare labor marketplace. The platform, which connects healthcare providers with licensed nurses, aims to expand its national footprint across the healthcare market, ShiftMed said in a Monday (Feb. 6) press release. “Healthcare providers continue to struggle...
Grocery giant Albertsons is the latest retailer expanding into the world of healthcare. The company announced Monday (Feb. 6) the debut of Sincerely Health, a digital health and wellness platform accessible on 16 of its grocers’ apps and websites, including Safeway, Vons, Acme and Albertsons...
While mostly a retail and finance tool, receipt data has already proven it can save lives. Researchers in the United Kingdom published findings last month demonstrating the benefit of early disease detection using item-level data taken from loyalty cards. The paper, led by Imperial College...
