January 21, 2020 Healthcare providers must carefully safeguard their cash flows to operate, but many face hurdles to getting fully compensated for provided services. The American Hospital Association (AHA) told PYMNTS via email that hospitals often prefer that ...
January 21, 2020In the latest example of hospitals’ influence in the data economy, Microsoft and Amazon now have access to patient records.
The deal, struck with large hospital players, will allow the megaliths ...
January 20, 2020Healthcare providers must often wait to get paid by insurance company partners for the patient treatments they have already administered, but digital tools and new approaches can help them take charge ...
January 20, 2020Health insurance companies can take weeks — or months — to reimburse physicians, leaving some so frustrated that they refuse to accept insurance plans at all. And that’s pressuring insurers ...
January 17, 2020Epic Systems is telling clients that it will not seek further Google Cloud integration and will instead focus on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS), CNBC reported.
The company decided ...
January 17, 2020 Healthcare providers must frequently wait to get paid by insurance company partners for the patient treatments they have already administered. Some private practice physicians even report weeks or months going ...
January 15, 2020With CVS Health on the path to meeting its goal of revamping more than 1,000 of its stores, the health retailer is reportedly seeing positive early results. CVS rolled out ...
January 14, 2020Counterfeiting is a thriving business, and marketplaces that specialize in reselling luxury items have heavily invested in authentication procedures. Mercari, in one case, rolled out its Mercari Authenticate service that lets customers remotely ...
January 13, 2020Cigna has announced a partnership with technology-focused Oscar, another health insurance firm, to provide plans and coverage across U.S. markets for small businesses.
“Small businesses are the backbone of the American ...
January 9, 2020The head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the largest and most powerful business lobbying group in the country, criticized presidential candidates challenging President Donald Trump on their proposed policies ...
January 9, 2020While there is no shortage of issues to be solved in the U.S. healthcare system – getting patients to keep the doctors’ appointments they make and then take the medications ...
January 9, 2020As Walgreens made “substantial progress” on accelerating its digitalization, among other strategic priorities, the pharmacy chain had fiscal 2020 first-quarter revenues of $34.3 billion and adjusted earnings per share (EPS) ...
January 5, 2020One Medical, a conglomerate of technology-driven primary care offices backed by Google’s Alphabet, has filed an initial public offering (IPO), One Medical announced on Friday (Jan. 3).
The San Francisco-headquartered startup ...
December 31, 2019A little more than a year ago, PYMNTS started tracking the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck between the two retail behemoths that have been expanding their respective ecosystems in ...
December 16, 2019Winter hasn’t officially started in the Northern Hemisphere, but it’s cold and dreary enough in many places, and that means all those fun winter bugs are doing their jobs and ...
December 12, 2019Silicon Valley software innovator LeanTaaS closed a $40 million Series C3 funding round led by Goldman Sachs, LeanTaaS announced in a press release on Thursday (Dec. 12).
LeanTaaS helps hospitals and ...
December 11, 2019Kroger and Walgreens are expanding their partnership to create a new group purchasing organization (GPO) called the Retail Procurement Alliance, which will pool resources to cut costs and advance innovation, ...
December 11, 2019The nearly universal need for medication and other remedies is driving retail innovation via the pharmacy sector — and that includes the area of customer experience.
One of the keys of ...
December 11, 2019Jacqueline Shreibati, M.D., the chief medical officer for medical device and artificial intelligence (AI) startup AliveCor, is joining the Google Health team, CNBC reported on Tuesday (Dec. 10).
David Feinberg, M.D. ...
December 2, 2019Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching a voice transcription tool for doctors at its Las Vegas re:Invent conference Dec. 2-6, CNBC reported on Monday (Dec. 2).
Amazon Transcribe Medical transcribes doctor-patient ...
November 26, 2019Amazon Alexa users can now receive medication reminders and make voice requests for prescription refills, Amazon announced on Tuesday (Nov. 26).
Medication management features are currently being trialed with customers of ...
November 22, 2019Google’s $2.1 billion Fitbit deal is sparking privacy concerns that the search giant will mine the health data of the 27 million people who use the fitness tracking device, The ...
November 20, 2019It’s not only shopping that is getting more visual via new and emerging technologies, a trend that promises to get more intense in the 2020s, especially with the deployment of ...
November 17, 2019Google‘s recent announcement that it is buying Fitbit is leading some users to ditch the device.
“I’m not only afraid of what they can do with the data currently, but what ...
November 11, 2019Ingenico Group announced that it has partnered with Belgium ePharmacy firm Newpharma on a new payment solution for online pharmaceutical buyers.
Launched in 2008, Newpharma was created to bring the pharmacy ...
November 6, 2019Healthcare stands as a fertile area for growth in payments and commerce, and the latest example of that comes from Apple. According to CNBC, the company, along with the U.S. ...
November 5, 2019Walgreens Boots Alliance could be going private in what would be the largest leveraged purchase of a company ever, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The company has been talking to ...
November 1, 2019Though the launch of Healthcare.gov is likely a dim, distant memory for most people, at the time, it was front-page news — and not for a good reason. The site, ...
October 27, 2019At first glance, the mention of seafood and the doctor’s office in the same sentence may conjure up images of a clambake gone terribly wrong.
But for Mastercard, which announced a ...
October 22, 2019Accounts payable technology company AvidXchange is targeting the healthcare industry with payments and invoicing offerings.
AvidXchange is broadening access of its AvidPay and AvidInvoice tools to the long-term healthcare and social ...
October 18, 2019As the tech giant aggressively pursues the health market, Google has hired former Obama administration health official Karen DeSalvo as its first chief health officer. DeSalvo spent the past two years teaching ...
October 18, 2019The Bristol-Myers Squibb-Pfizer Alliance and Fitbit announced they have teamed up to improve the diagnosis and early detection of atrial fibrillation (AFib) for those with an increased risk of stroke.
The ...
October 18, 2019Samsung SDS will reportedly launch a blockchain-based medical claims processing system this month. According to CoinDesk, the new system will link all hospitals, pharmacies, insurers and other companies in the ...
October 14, 2019Mastercard is teaming with the taxi ride-hailing app Curb to help the American Cancer Society’s Road to Recovery program, which provides free rides to patients going for cancer treatment, Mastercard ...
October 8, 2019Alphabet-backed healthcare chain One Medical has joined forces with JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley for a planned IPO, CNBC reported on Tuesday (Oct. 8).
Sources told CNBC that the $1.5 billion-valued firm ...
October 8, 2019The World Bank estimates that there are approximately 1.1 billion individuals worldwide without basic ID credentials — a significant obstacle when attempting to access essential services such as healthcare or ...
October 7, 2019The new 5G mobile network technology has started to make its initial foray into healthcare, and at a time when issues of cost, efficiency and accessibility are gaining even more ...
October 3, 2019Walmart, one of the largest companies in the world, will begin pilot testing new healthcare programs for its employees starting next year, according to a report by CNBC.
The move is ...
October 2, 2019Getting to the finish line is one thing. But getting a good start is another matter entirely, and that holds true for the all-important issue of healthcare payments. Patients, hospitals ...
October 2, 2019To provide on-demand delivery for shoppers looking for health and wellness products, Walgreens and Postmates have announced a collaboration. Postmates will deliver hundreds of the pharmacy retailer’s items from 174 ...
Healthcare providers must carefully safeguard their cash flows to operate, but many face hurdles to getting fully compensated for provided services. The American Hospital Association (AHA) told PYMNTS via email that hospitals often prefer that ...
In the latest example of hospitals’ influence in the data economy, Microsoft and Amazon now have access to patient records.
The deal, struck with large hospital players, will allow the megaliths ...
Healthcare providers must often wait to get paid by insurance company partners for the patient treatments they have already administered, but digital tools and new approaches can help them take charge ...
Health insurance companies can take weeks — or months — to reimburse physicians, leaving some so frustrated that they refuse to accept insurance plans at all. And that’s pressuring insurers ...
Epic Systems is telling clients that it will not seek further Google Cloud integration and will instead focus on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS), CNBC reported.
The company decided ...
Healthcare providers must frequently wait to get paid by insurance company partners for the patient treatments they have already administered. Some private practice physicians even report weeks or months going ...
With CVS Health on the path to meeting its goal of revamping more than 1,000 of its stores, the health retailer is reportedly seeing positive early results. CVS rolled out ...
Counterfeiting is a thriving business, and marketplaces that specialize in reselling luxury items have heavily invested in authentication procedures. Mercari, in one case, rolled out its Mercari Authenticate service that lets customers remotely ...
Cigna has announced a partnership with technology-focused Oscar, another health insurance firm, to provide plans and coverage across U.S. markets for small businesses.
“Small businesses are the backbone of the American ...
The head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the largest and most powerful business lobbying group in the country, criticized presidential candidates challenging President Donald Trump on their proposed policies ...
While there is no shortage of issues to be solved in the U.S. healthcare system – getting patients to keep the doctors’ appointments they make and then take the medications ...
As Walgreens made “substantial progress” on accelerating its digitalization, among other strategic priorities, the pharmacy chain had fiscal 2020 first-quarter revenues of $34.3 billion and adjusted earnings per share (EPS) ...
One Medical, a conglomerate of technology-driven primary care offices backed by Google’s Alphabet, has filed an initial public offering (IPO), One Medical announced on Friday (Jan. 3).
The San Francisco-headquartered startup ...
A little more than a year ago, PYMNTS started tracking the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck between the two retail behemoths that have been expanding their respective ecosystems in ...
Winter hasn’t officially started in the Northern Hemisphere, but it’s cold and dreary enough in many places, and that means all those fun winter bugs are doing their jobs and ...
Silicon Valley software innovator LeanTaaS closed a $40 million Series C3 funding round led by Goldman Sachs, LeanTaaS announced in a press release on Thursday (Dec. 12).
LeanTaaS helps hospitals and ...
Kroger and Walgreens are expanding their partnership to create a new group purchasing organization (GPO) called the Retail Procurement Alliance, which will pool resources to cut costs and advance innovation, ...
The nearly universal need for medication and other remedies is driving retail innovation via the pharmacy sector — and that includes the area of customer experience.
One of the keys of ...
Jacqueline Shreibati, M.D., the chief medical officer for medical device and artificial intelligence (AI) startup AliveCor, is joining the Google Health team, CNBC reported on Tuesday (Dec. 10).
David Feinberg, M.D. ...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching a voice transcription tool for doctors at its Las Vegas re:Invent conference Dec. 2-6, CNBC reported on Monday (Dec. 2).
Amazon Transcribe Medical transcribes doctor-patient ...
Amazon Alexa users can now receive medication reminders and make voice requests for prescription refills, Amazon announced on Tuesday (Nov. 26).
Medication management features are currently being trialed with customers of ...
Google’s $2.1 billion Fitbit deal is sparking privacy concerns that the search giant will mine the health data of the 27 million people who use the fitness tracking device, The ...
It’s not only shopping that is getting more visual via new and emerging technologies, a trend that promises to get more intense in the 2020s, especially with the deployment of ...
Google‘s recent announcement that it is buying Fitbit is leading some users to ditch the device.
“I’m not only afraid of what they can do with the data currently, but what ...
Ingenico Group announced that it has partnered with Belgium ePharmacy firm Newpharma on a new payment solution for online pharmaceutical buyers.
Launched in 2008, Newpharma was created to bring the pharmacy ...
Healthcare stands as a fertile area for growth in payments and commerce, and the latest example of that comes from Apple. According to CNBC, the company, along with the U.S. ...
Walgreens Boots Alliance could be going private in what would be the largest leveraged purchase of a company ever, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The company has been talking to ...
Though the launch of Healthcare.gov is likely a dim, distant memory for most people, at the time, it was front-page news — and not for a good reason. The site, ...
At first glance, the mention of seafood and the doctor’s office in the same sentence may conjure up images of a clambake gone terribly wrong.
But for Mastercard, which announced a ...
Accounts payable technology company AvidXchange is targeting the healthcare industry with payments and invoicing offerings.
AvidXchange is broadening access of its AvidPay and AvidInvoice tools to the long-term healthcare and social ...
The Bristol-Myers Squibb-Pfizer Alliance and Fitbit announced they have teamed up to improve the diagnosis and early detection of atrial fibrillation (AFib) for those with an increased risk of stroke.
The ...
Samsung SDS will reportedly launch a blockchain-based medical claims processing system this month. According to CoinDesk, the new system will link all hospitals, pharmacies, insurers and other companies in the ...
Mastercard is teaming with the taxi ride-hailing app Curb to help the American Cancer Society’s Road to Recovery program, which provides free rides to patients going for cancer treatment, Mastercard ...
Alphabet-backed healthcare chain One Medical has joined forces with JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley for a planned IPO, CNBC reported on Tuesday (Oct. 8).
Sources told CNBC that the $1.5 billion-valued firm ...
The World Bank estimates that there are approximately 1.1 billion individuals worldwide without basic ID credentials — a significant obstacle when attempting to access essential services such as healthcare or ...
The new 5G mobile network technology has started to make its initial foray into healthcare, and at a time when issues of cost, efficiency and accessibility are gaining even more ...
Walmart, one of the largest companies in the world, will begin pilot testing new healthcare programs for its employees starting next year, according to a report by CNBC.
The move is ...
Getting to the finish line is one thing. But getting a good start is another matter entirely, and that holds true for the all-important issue of healthcare payments. Patients, hospitals ...
To provide on-demand delivery for shoppers looking for health and wellness products, Walgreens and Postmates have announced a collaboration. Postmates will deliver hundreds of the pharmacy retailer’s items from 174 ...
