Today in healthcare: Half of U.S patients are in the dark about the cost of healthcare. Plus, why telemedicine will remain a viable healthcare alternative, and Apple is exploring ways to use its devices to detect and diagnose mental health conditions. Apple Takes Bigger Bite...
As the healthcare sector continues its own recovery from COVID-19 and various variants, among the most promising innovations are not in treatments, but rather in payments. Elective surgeries and other profitable procedures cratered during the pandemic. With a sluggish economy and unemployment still confronting many...
Today’s patients are well aware of their options as retail consumers, and their desire for transparency and streamlined payments processes is now impacting their loyalty to healthcare providers. According to PYMNTS research, only 30% of consumers are able to access a cost estimate for healthcare...
In the latest development in the push to use smartphones and wearables to track users’ health, Apple Inc. is looking into ways to use its devices to detect and diagnose mental health conditions. It’s part of a series of similar undertakings with implications for consumers’...
Xealth, which works to enable digital health at scale, has announced a Series B funding round with $24 million, a press release says. The funding will go toward adding to the team by doubling the number of employees, and it will also go toward more...
The federal Department of Health and Human Services is distributing nearly $20 million to three dozen organizations, nationwide, that are working to spread telehealth in rural areas. “Telehealth expands access to care and is a vital tool for improving health equity by providing timely clinical...
To hear Bob Raffo tell it, fear is one of the biggest hurdles standing in the way of medical treatment in the U.S. But the FirstView CEO isn’t talking about concern over getting a shot or undergoing a painful procedure; he’s talking about financial fear,...
Some Golden State residents covered by Blue Shield of California will be offered limited healthcare services at Walgreens locations under a newly announced arrangement between the two companies, according to a press release. The companies state in a news release that the initiative will expand...
The majority of health insurers’ fraud, waste and abuse (FWA) investigations take place after claims are paid, not before — and consumer payments can be a particular point of vulnerability. Artificial intelligence (AI) can help healthcare companies tackle those vulnerabilities and battle the fraudsters, as...
