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Goldman Invests $40M In LeanTaaS Healthcare Software Firm
December 12, 2019

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...

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The White House Startup That’s Taking On Healthcare Payments
November 01, 2019

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...

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Healthcare Looks To 5G For Cost Control
October 07, 2019

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...

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Order-Ahead Comes To Healthcare
October 02, 2019

Getting to the finish line is one thing. But getting a good start is another matter entirely, and that holds true for the all-important issue of healthcare payments. Patients, hospitals and medical services providers that fail to get a good handle on costs, bills and...

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Can Payments Solve Healthcare’s $20K-Per-Family Cost Burden?
September 30, 2019

We all know the drill. After receiving treatment at a hospital (whether an in-and-out affair, such as an MRI, or a multi-day stay in a room), the insurance notices and bills start arriving. The first one, two or three are usually ignored, perhaps put on...

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Sam’s Club Introduces Healthcare Benefits
September 27, 2019

Sam’s Club is partnering with Humana and other companies to offer members in Michigan, Pennsylvania and North Carolina discounts on healthcare services, including primary care and dental services, The Associated Press reported on Thursday (Sept. 26). If the pilot program is successful, Sam’s Club Care...

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Healthcare Goes Retail
September 17, 2019

Healthcare, among the biggest industries in the world, is being massively disrupted, an effort that could take years or even decades before all the dust settles. In the meantime, the digital, mobile, delivery and other innovations that are taking place in this sector are also...

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Digital Players Seek To Provide More Healthcare Discounts
September 10, 2019

Digital technology and the digital ecosystem are helping to drive discount programs for healthcare, a trend that promises to gain even more traction in the 2020s. Even so, the jury is still out on how effective these programs are and will be, though these discounts...

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Amazon’s PillPack Accused Of Illicitly Obtaining Patient Data
August 06, 2019

Amazon’s online pharmacy, PillPack, is being accused of getting access to patient data it wasn’t entitled to, through a third party, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. A company that provides the tech to route prescriptions, Surescripts, accused PillPack of the indiscretion...