Healthcare is top of mind as the coronavirus hits hard everywhere. The inefficiencies of the system itself are on full display during the pandemic — where testing is hard to come by, diagnoses and treatments are reactive rather than proactive, and many people do not...
On a good day, healthcare providers do a difficult job. In the last several weeks, that difficult job has become a heroic labor nationwide as workers on the front lines battle back the coronavirus pandemic. And the front lines aren’t the only areas of the...
UnitedHealth is working on getting around $2 billion in payments to doctors and other health professionals over the next week, the insurance giant says. The move will try to ease the financial stress that the coronavirus has stricken upon the U.S. economy, particularly to stop...
New federal rules will standardize how health data is shared and mandate that people have digital access to their own medical records, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday (March 9). It is anticipated that the new regulations will benefit the growing medical data industry....
Although house calls were the most common method by which doctors gave medical care just a few generations ago, as of the second decade of the 20th century, most people are long since habituated to the idea that a doctor is someone one goes out...
Be thankful you don’t have lipodystrophy. It’s a condition in which the body cannot control production of fat tissue. It can cause energy control problems and diabetes, and even worse, the drug that can control it, Myalept, is a bit expensive. List price for Myalept:...
A digital-first world needs a digital-first healthcare payments reboot, especially as consumers become among its largest payors. It’s one of the reasons that Flywire CEO Mike Massaro tells Karen Webster they are doubling down on the healthcare vertical and made the move to acquire Simplee....
San Francisco’s Verana Health, a health-data startup, raised $100 million from investors, such as GV (Google) and Bain Capital. The plentiful interest in Verana signals the interest in new data-driven ways to treat disease. Verana works with two medical associations for its process of analyzing...
Peter Lee, corporate vice president of Microsoft Healthcare, wants to make sure patients have access to their healthcare records. Lee, speaking with CNBC, said he wanted to follow the general trend set by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and make sure they keep to a standard...
