Today in healthcare, 23andMe buys Lemonaid Health for $400 million, and Prime and Synchrony expand healthcare financing offering. Plus, online billing makes things easier for senior living facilities operators and their residents, and Anomaly snags $17 million in Series A and seed funding. Healthcare Payments...
Healthcare provider Prime Healthcare and financial service company Synchrony rolled out a collaboration on Tuesday (Oct. 26) that allows Prime’s patients to pay for their healthcare appointments over time through Synchrony’s CareCredit credit card. “Patient care will always be our number one priority,” Sunitha Reddy,...
Today in healthcare, healthcare patients want better experiences, and Hackensack Meridian Health integrates with Google Workspace and Chrome OS devices to enhance patient care. Plus, Blue Shield and Google Cloud are working together on processing claims quicker, while the Paceline Health and Wellness Credit Card...
Blue Shield of California is working alongside Google Cloud to debut a way to process payment claims in real time on a cloud platform, a press release says. Announced on Monday (Oct. 18), the release says the companies plan to utilize automated processing, artificial intelligence...
Consumers are used to ease and convenience when they check out online or in-store and “checking out” at the doctors is no different. In fact, PYMNTS data shows that nearly two-thirds of consumers will switch healthcare providers if they don’t get it. Modern patients act...
Hackensack Meridian Health is among the first medical care systems anywhere in the world to take the full leap into integrating with Google Workspace and Chrome OS devices to improve the overall digital ecosystem for patient care. The partnership will also tap Google Cloud services...
In “The Way Payments Are Now Done,” 33 payment executives discuss what payments’ “new normal” looks like. Alberto Casellas, EVP and CEO at Synchrony’s health and wellness platform, CareCredit is one of those contributors. He discusses how in the healthcare arena, patients are increasingly expecting...
Every service has a last mile – that final, physical meeting between consumer and provider. We tend to equate the “last-mile” concept with retail, with the delivery vans that move from distribution center to doorstep. But healthcare has its last mile – and its last-mile frictions,...
Today in healthcare, DeepMind gets hit with class-action lawsuit by U.K. patients. Plus, Walgreens rolls out a healthcare-focused business segment, and UnitedHealth Group reports healthy fiscal growth as it plans to expand. Walgreens Launches New Business Segment Focused on Healthcare Walgreens now has a business...
