Today in healthcare, Johnson & Johnson pointed to medical device sales as one of the keys to its Q2 growth, and doctors with better digital tools are becoming increasingly attractive to patients. Plus, telemedicine’s bubble could burst without better data security. Johnson & Johnson Q2...
There’s a change in the air for healthcare. Consumers doing the digital shift in every other part of their lives instinctively grasp the idea that digital transformation can help cure an ailing healthcare system, and they’re willing to try new physicians to access connected care....
As much as digital technology has been used to solve a lot of life’s problems over the past year or so, when it comes to the healthcare sector, the upgrades have been lagging behind the innovations seen in other industries. However, a spate of recent...
Today in healthcare, HC startups have raised almost $15 billion in venture capital funding this year and UnitedHealth has strong Q2. Plus, telemedicine is turning to AI to solve its privacy problems and consumers need a digital component as part of their in-person healthcare experiences....
Call it healthcare’s digital version of necessity as the mother of invention. At first glance it may seem like no surprise that Optum, the platform that offers tech-enabled service for UnitedHealth Group, would help drive results at the insurance giant that has over 70 million members. After...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has revealed the “general availability” of Amazon HealthLake, a HIPAA-eligible offering that helps healthcare and life sciences entities take in, keep, search through and generate insights from large volumes of health data, according to a Thursday (July 15) announcement. “More and...
Healthcare company Medline and payments technology company InComm Payments are teaming up to improve the experience of managed care health plan members buying over-the-counter (OTC) products, according to a press release. The partnership will focus on making more flexible ways to pay for OTC items,...
Consumers have returned to visiting their local healthcare providers in person, but digital tools that make it easier for them to manage their healthcare experiences are still in demand. In Connected Healthcare: What Patients Want From Their Healthcare Customer Experiences, a PYMNTS collaboration with Rectangle...
The digital Rx race is on, and it is crowded. It’s not just a race between digital pharmacy newcomers like Amazon and Walmart taking on established pharmacy players like CVS and Walgreens, but a much border free-for-all, with a variety of up-and-comers like GoodRx, Alto,...
