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Cedars-Sinai Tests Smart Hospital Rooms With Alexa
February 26, 2019

Cedars-Sinai, a hospital in Los Angeles, California, has begun a pilot program that placed an Amazon Echo in 100 patient rooms for hands-free nurse interaction and entertainment control, the hospital said in a statement. The platform, called Aiva, is the first patient-centered voice assistant of...

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How Payment Plans Can Cure Healthcare Payments’ Biggest Problem
February 14, 2019

Americans are on the hook for an ever-increasing percentage of their medical bills. As healthcare becomes a tough pill to swallow financially, 57 percent of consumers would like to set up, or at least be offered, payment plans. John Talaga, GM and EVP of Healthcare...

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Apple, VA To Provide Health Records To 9M Veterans
February 11, 2019

Tech giant Apple will provide its Health Records feature on the iPhone to the upwards of nine million veterans in facilities all over the country, according to reports. “We have great admiration for veterans, and we’re proud to bring a solution like Health Records on...

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Good Healthcare Requires Good Data — And Blockchain And Biometrics, Too?
February 06, 2019

This isn’t some cheap dose of “Little House on the Prairie” nostalgia, but rather a shot of truth: We are a long way from small-town doctors treating patients for decades and lifetimes — after treating their parents, and perhaps even grandparents as well. Not only...

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Startup 98point6 Raises $86M To Rival Amazon In Healthcare
January 28, 2019

Seattle-based 98point6 has officially launched nationwide availability of its on-demand primary care platform. The company announced that the service, which delivers personalized consultation, diagnosis and treatment to patients across the country, is available to anyone 18 years and older, regardless of whether they have health insurance....

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WEX CEO: Why Being Agile Is As Important As Being Innovative
January 21, 2019

Innovation is good, but flexibility and agility count, too — as does striking while it’s hot. Those are among the factors that drove the recent acquisition of Discovery Benefits, Inc. (DBI), an employee benefits administrator, by financial technology services company WEX. In this week’s Monday Conversation from...

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305M+ Healthcare Claims Were Paid Via ACH In 2018
January 17, 2019

New data found that more than 306.7 million automated clearing house (ACH) electronic funds transfer (EFT) payments were made from health plans to healthcare providers last year. The new figures from NACHA — The Electronic Payments Association have shown an increase of 11.5 percent from 2017. That is more than double...

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Microsoft/Walgreens Deal Heats Up Digital Healthcare War
January 15, 2019

Healthcare done digitally is attracting the attention and the dollars of tech giants, linking them with brick-and-mortar players in a push to meld tech and retail. In the latest evidence of strategic alliances – notably targeting Amazon’s movement into healthcare – Microsoft said Tuesday morning (Jan....

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Walmart Ditches CVS As Pharmacy Partner
January 15, 2019

CVS Health, the drugstore chain operator, announced Tuesday (Jan. 15) that Walmart has chosen to leave the CVS Caremark pharmacy benefit management (PBM) commercial and Managed Medicaid retail pharmacy networks. In a press release announcing the development, CVS said it has requested that Walmart continue...