European healthcare systems have been slow to digitize as demand for telemedicine and telehealth services has soared around the world in recent years, hampering growth of the region’s digital healthcare market. According to Kalle Conneryd-Lundgren, COO at pan-European HealthTech firm Kry, one of the main...
PatientFi now enables aesthetics practices to offer patients annual treatment plans with monthly payments. With the firm’s new Privi membership platform, practices can build annual beauty memberships that include neurotoxin, filler, skincare, body treatments and other aesthetic treatment and allow patients to pay monthly, PatientFi...
Healthcare payments provider RevSpring has launched a partnership with Texas health company Next Level Medical. The collaboration, announced Wednesday (April 19), lets Next Level offer its patients “a connected and seamless healthcare engagement experience,” while eliminating data errors and administrative overhead, RevSpring said in a...
Hospitals are reportedly turning to gig economy apps to fill shifts amid a nursing shortage. This change comes at a time when hospitals continue to struggle with staffing issues after seeing the largest drop in nurse employment in four decades during the pandemic years of...
As the health insurance ecosystem deals with the May ending of COVID emergency measures that will redetermine coverage for millions, UnitedHealthcare and its Optum unit are seeing growth, with particular strength in its home health offerings. On its first-quarter 2023 earnings call Friday (April 14)...
Salesforce has rolled out a version of its Commerce Cloud for the healthcare field. The HIPAA-compliant platform, announced in a Wednesday (April 12) press release, is designed to streamline healthcare commerce experiences while reducing costs. “As the healthcare industry’s digital transformation continues, organizations that don’t...
Three credit reporting agencies have taken another step in removing medical collection tradelines from credit reports. Equifax, Experian and TransUnion have removed medical collections debt with an initial reported balance of under $500 from U.S. consumer credit reports, the three credit reporting agencies said Tuesday...
UnitedHealth Group has reportedly acquired New York-based Crystal Run Healthcare. Crystal Run Healthcare is a physician group with a network of 400 doctors, and UnitedHealth Group’s acquisition shows that managed care companies have a growing interest in primary care providers, Seeking Alpha reported Monday (April...
Nowhere are innovative breakthroughs more impactful and life-changing than in healthcare and medicine. At the same time as certain technology leaders are calling for a pause on the development of artificial intelligence (AI), other industry observers believe that integrating AI into healthcare could deliver previously unimaginable treatments...