Healthcare

Health care, health-care, or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals in allied health fields.

(source: en.wikipedia.org)

Microsoft Acquires AI Firm Nuance In $19.7 Billion Deal
Microsoft Acquires AI Firm Nuance In $19.7 Billion Deal
April 12, 2021  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Microsoft is acquiring artificial intelligence (AI) speech recognition tech company Nuance Communications in a $19.7 billion deal to advance its cloud products for healthcare. The...

READ MORE >
Microsoft Could Sign Deal Monday With Voice-Tech Pioneer Nuance
Microsoft Could Sign Deal Monday With Voice-Tech Pioneer Nuance
April 11, 2021  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Microsoft is in “advanced talks” to buy Nuance Communications, a leader in voice recognition technologies whose products include Dragon, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources. At...

READ MORE >
BlackBerry, Embedded Payments, Delegated Authentication Top This Week’s News
BlackBerry, Embedded Payments, Delegated Authentication Top This Week’s News
April 09, 2021  |  The Weekender

In this week’s news, rumors have been swirling that a new BlackBerry-branded device will be 5G compatible, and new insights on embedded payments and delegated...

READ MORE >
Telemedicine Expansion And Policy Standards Get State, Federal Support
Telemedicine Expansion And Policy Standards Get State, Federal Support
April 09, 2021  |  Healthcare

In the wake of the pandemic and its shakeup of traditional healthcare patterns, both patients and physicians are reporting high levels of satisfaction with telehealth....

READ MORE >
The Week In Payments: Digital Healthcare, COVID-19 Passports And The Banking Innovation Challenge 
The Week In Payments: Digital Healthcare, COVID-19 Passports And The Banking Innovation Challenge 
April 09, 2021  |  News

Big money moves in the world of healthcare. There are public concerns about FinTechs. And there’s the continuing debate about when, where and how consumers...

READ MORE >
Delayed Diagnosis: Picture Emerging Of Non-COVID Healthcare Treatments
Delayed Diagnosis: Picture Emerging Of Non-COVID Healthcare Treatments
April 08, 2021  |  Healthcare

The COVID-19 pandemic might have pushed alternative treatments channels like telemedicine forward, but in terms of regular care, there was a decided backlash. Now, thanks...

READ MORE >
Walgreens-Backed Healthcare Provider VillageMD Plans IPO
Walgreens-Backed Healthcare Provider VillageMD Plans IPO
April 07, 2021  |  IPO

VillageMD, a Walgreens-backed primary healthcare provider, is looking at an initial public offering (IPO) soon, Bloomberg reported. The company will do its IPO in the...

READ MORE >
Pandemic Brings Home Healthcare Back Into Vogue
Pandemic Brings Home Healthcare Back Into Vogue
April 07, 2021  |  Healthcare

The concept of home healthcare has had an inconsistent journey since the doctor house calls of 50 years ago. For example, according to the National...

READ MORE >
Quest Diagnostics Sees D2C As Future Of Consumer-Driven Healthcare
Quest Diagnostics Sees D2C As Future Of Consumer-Driven Healthcare
April 07, 2021  |  Healthcare

Quest Diagnostics had been preparing for 2020 for two years. As one of the top medical-testing providers in the nation, it first launched its consumer-initiated...

READ MORE >