A letter from the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) says that America’s hotels, starved for work, want to be considered as vaccine distribution sites. “By quickly mobilizing an existing network of sites, hotels can help strengthen the delivery and distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine...
Reining in the rising cost of healthcare and simplifying the elaborate insurance system we use to pay for it has to be the best-known problem in the country that, despite decades of debate, nobody’s been able to fix. According to Ian Blumenfeld, who has a...
A coalition of organizations in the health and technology industries has kicked off a campaign to allow individuals to easily access their COVID-19 vaccination records in a way that preserves patient privacy. The new Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI) said the goal is to create a...
It is not lost on David Goldhill that three of the biggest, smartest and most powerful companies in the world have disbanded their efforts to collectively fix the healthcare system. But that’s what happened recently as Haven — the healthcare venture between Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway...
Even though he thinks waves of the coronavirus will be around for at least another year or two, LeanTaaS CEO Mohan Giridharadas said that at least one side effect of the pandemic could affect the healthcare system forever. “I think what COVID has done is...
In the bid to transform the most paper-laden of verticals, to render an opaque system transparent, 2021 is already shaping up to be a banner year in healthcare. To that end, UnitedHealth’s Optum announced a deal to buy Change Healthcare for $13 billion – a...
The pandemic did not create the problems with access and expense in the United State healthcare system. What COVID-19 did change, however, is the urgency with which the market was addressing this problem. With that in mind, San Francisco-based Carbon Health is working on a...
Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) has turbo-charged its investment into VillageMD to facilitate the opening of between 600 and 700 new Village Medical at Walgreens primacy care clinics in the next four years, according to a press release. The companies intend to build “hundreds more” in...
After being bought by UnitedHealth, Change Healthcare will join with OptumInsight to boost software and data analytics, tech-fueled research and revenue cycle management offerings for healthcare, according to a press release Wednesday (Jan. 6). Optum, which is part of UnitedHealth, will work with Change Healthcare...
