Automation handles large tasks quickly and accurately. It’s especially effective when there’s not enough humans to tackle big challenges like accounts payable (AP) in the age of COVID. This is reaching urgent levels in healthcare as back-office burnout and the great resignation hit this field...
With the COVID pandemic leaving a major mental and behavioral health crisis in its wake, telehealth is being catapulted deeper into the fray with its ability to deliver this needed care at a time when America’s mental health infrastructure is weakened, or nonexistent in some...
Rising healthcare prices and often aggressive collections attempts are making news as the nation’s medical debt problem mounts, spurring public and private sector responses. The U.S. Census Bureau reported last year that “19% of U.S. households could not afford to pay for medical care upfront...
Cognizant has announced a partnership with Microsoft to help deliver a health solution for remote patient monitoring, according to a press release Tuesday (March 1). The solution is intended to boost the quality of medical care. The solution will leverage components of the Microsoft Cloud...
The American healthcare system is held up by a billing, payments, collections and credit reporting infrastructure riddled with mistakes, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said in a new report Tuesday (March 1). Within that system, the CFPB said, mistakes are common, with patients often...
The prescription business is getting a bit of a headache as pricing, product and the shifting landscape of retail pharmacies, prescription delivery services and other players reshape the terrain, hitting bumps. Trends pressing on prescriptions were evident in GoodRx’s fourth-quarter 2021 earnings, as healthy gains...
Voice is projecting itself deeper into how we monitor health and receive care, as various types of voice technology are vying for the spot in the chorus of treatment modalities. The latest evidence comes from telehealth platform Teladoc, which announced its new integration with Amazon...
Virtual care provider Teladoc Heath has launched a collaboration with Amazon Alexa to provide care on Echo devices such the Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Show. The partnership – announced in a news release Monday (Feb. 28) – will initially involve Teladoc launching on Alexa...
The Federal Trade Commission has opened the public comment period through April 25 on “the ways that practices by large, vertically integrated Pharmacy Benefit Managers’ (PBMs) are affecting drug affordability and access,” according to a Thursday (Feb. 24) press release. The FTC’s public comment period looks...
