Supermarket pharmacy counters are closing across the U.S. as they struggle to keep customers coming back. The move, happening in states as varied as Washington, Minnesota and everywhere in between, comes as customers have been making fewer trips to visit pharmacy counters while doing grocery...
The national healthcare debate rages on, with cost at or near the center of most deliberations. Less talked about — and yet intrinsic to the matter — is the subject of payments. As healthcare providers and insurers duke it out over contract rates and reimbursement...
Healthcare transportation companies Ride Health and Uber Health have teamed up on non-emergency medical transportation to expand options for people seeking an easier way to get to their medical appointments, Ride Health announced on Tuesday (Jan. 21). Transportation issues are a big reason that people miss medical...
Epic Systems is telling clients that it will not seek further Google Cloud integration and will instead focus on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS), CNBC reported. The company decided to stop development with Google Cloud as it wasn’t experiencing enough interest among its...
While there is no shortage of issues to be solved in the U.S. healthcare system – getting patients to keep the doctors’ appointments they make and then take the medications that their doctors prescribe is one that has a cascading effect of issues across the...
Winter hasn’t officially started in the Northern Hemisphere, but it’s cold and dreary enough in many places, and that means all those fun winter bugs are doing their jobs and making people ill. It also means that pharmacies — whether brick-and-mortar or online — are...
Silicon Valley software innovator LeanTaaS closed a $40 million Series C3 funding round led by Goldman Sachs, LeanTaaS announced in a press release on Thursday (Dec. 12). LeanTaaS helps hospitals and health systems to increase access, as well as lower costs, through prescriptive and predictive...
Though the launch of Healthcare.gov is likely a dim, distant memory for most people, at the time, it was front-page news — and not for a good reason. The site, tasked with enrolling people in the newly passed Affordable Care Act (ACA), was by all...
The new 5G mobile network technology has started to make its initial foray into healthcare, and at a time when issues of cost, efficiency and accessibility are gaining even more focus than was the case before. As all that happens, potential use cases for 5G...
