It can be justifiably easy to focus on Amazon when it comes to disruptions in healthcare. But ignoring the role of a Chinese company called WeDoctor would border on the unwise. In large part, that’s because, according to a report this week in Bloomberg, WeDoctor...
Pets do more than welcome us home, keep us company and, on occasion, try to snack on squirrels. They may become reliable revenue for insurance providers. Make no mistake: Dogs, cats and other domesticated animals already serve as a healthy source of sales for retailers....
A prescription delivery program and a deal involving medical payments data show how the healthcare industry is quickly changing as technology develops, and as Amazon prepares its own major moves. First, the news that’s most directly related to payments: Verscend Technologies has agreed to buy...
In 2005, Senator Elizabeth Warren – then a professor – published an academic paper along with David Himmelstein, Deborah Thorne and Steffie Woolhandler, in the journal Health Affairs that made a very bold claim: Over 40 percent of all U.S. bankruptcies came as the result of medical...
One of the latest changes to federal rules regarding non-medical home care services could provide more business opportunity to firms that serve that market and handle such backend tasks as billing and payroll. In April, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said...
Best Buy is testing out a new service aimed at helping to keep senior citizens healthier. “We already assort a variety of health-related products and technology products designed for seniors, like specially designed phones and medical alert systems,” CEO Hubert Joly said on an earnings...
Among the latest hopes for healthcare payments is blockchain. Touted by observers and industry players as one of the top trends that could impact medical billing and data management for 2018, the technology is increasingly being viewed as part of the path to better efficiency...
Blockchain, cloud computing and other technologies are moving further into the world of healthcare data, promising to change everything from patient management to medical payments. Now a U.S.-based organization hopes to get ahead of that curve by offering a new accreditation program designed to boost...
Oscar Health, the startup aiming to disrupt the healthcare market, announced Tuesday (March 27) that it has raised $165 million in a fresh round of fundraising led by Founders Fund. In a blog post, Mario Schlosser and Joshua Kushner, co-founders of Oscar Health, said other investors...
