As if being ill or hurt isn’t bad enough, PYMNTS’ research finds that patients report several pain points related to finding healthcare providers and getting cost estimates in advance of care. We explore this in “The Digital Healthcare Gap: Streamlining The Patient Journey,” a PYMNTS...
As health plans seek ways of improving utilization and experience for members, particularly around supplemental benefits like healthy foods and over-the-counter (OTC) medications, Uber Health is adding delivery of these items to its platform. “Payers and providers nationwide will soon be able to use the...
WebMD Health Services plans to acquire Limeade to “re-energize” the market for employee well-being solutions. The companies have 40 years of combined experience in creating and delivering well-being solutions, and the transaction is expected to close within the next quarter, WebMD Health Services and Limeade...
The image of a tech-averse older consumer not understanding or being interested in using digital tools to manage their healthcare is a relic of the pre-pandemic era. The baby boomers and seniors aging into Medicare today have seen the light — it’s on their device...
Google Cloud and Mayo Clinic are collaborating to use generative artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. The collaboration aims to enable clinicians and researchers to find information in a way that is fast, seamless and conversational, the companies said in a Wednesday (June 7) press release....
Masks and restrictions may be gone, but changes wrought by the pandemic are here to stay, and they’re continuing to evolve into other areas of healthcare — like wellness — and consumers need ways of paying for such services, which are usually not covered by...
The growing yet fragmented home health space is moving toward a more consolidated and centralized footing one deal at a time as major players continue snapping up smaller ones, reinventing home health as a consumer-centric product, service and experience, increasingly delivered by major brands. Done...
When is a breakthrough diabetes and weight loss treatment problematic? Never — except perhaps when it drastically changes the multibillion-dollar weight loss industry, causing ripple effects that are benefitting patients and pharma manufacturers but spell change in other areas of health and wellness. Invented by pharmaceuticals...
Online portals have become a popular way to manage healthcare information and payments, but consumers must often use more than one portal, which is cumbersome at best, and that’s giving a boost to unified platforms that aggregate this information and activity in one place. Analyzing...