Struggling hospitals and healthcare providers are asking the U.S. government to disburse remaining Provider Relief Fund (PRF) relief monies, and expand them, as the toll of two years of disruption and six months of COVID variants finds health systems still ailing from a cash crunch....
GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer will hold out for a better bid of at least £60 billion for their joint consumer healthcare venture, in opposition to an earlier offer they didn’t like, Financial Times writes. They’re rejecting a £50 billion offer from Unilever, which GSK said was...
A distant relation to today’s connected economy is the embattled healthcare industry, which for decades has used the interoperable technology of the time to detect and treat disease. Pain points for patients extend beyond physical and mental aches, however, into how they will interact with...
After nearly two years of COVID-19 and an unprecedented digital shift in consumer behaviors, the changes and integrations between the health and financial systems have never been greater. While the free flow of data between healthcare providers, hospitals, insurers and consumers has had dramatic positive...
Digital ecosystems are an ideal prescription for the healthcare sector, where new levels of connectedness are transforming the journey from diagnosis to treatment to outcome. Proving the allure of connected healthcare to major players in and around the sector, Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies...
Pandemic-induced extended lockdowns have forced people to seek alternative ways to access health services, triggering a boom in the use of technology and innovation in healthcare provision worldwide. As a direct result, investments in global health technology startups have skyrocketed since the onset of the...
The omicron variant finds hospitals and doctor’s offices straining under the weight of another heavy wave of COVID cases, lending momentum to alternate care models. Among those, the hospital-at-home model is ramping up amid the current reordering of healthcare delivery. Like many other concepts, hospital-at-home...
The healthcare business isn’t well. The aftermath of the pandemic on practices, ongoing issues of uncollected medical debt, shifting modes of care and changing patient expectations are making prime stakeholders dizzy. But it’s a discomfort that smarter systems can help put right. Digital transformation is...
World markets enter 2022 with COVID-19 fears refreshed due to omicron, thousands of canceled holiday flights and events worldwide, and more alarming, a crushing labor shortage among essential workers from hospitals to retail stores as new disruptions exhaust staunch frontline workers who keep emergency rooms...
