April 12, 2019The U.S. faces a physical shortage today that some are predicting will turn into a crisis over the course of the next decade. According to a report by the Association ...
April 12, 2019Ant Financial Services Group, the payment affiliate of Alibaba, launched a health aid plan in China that has landed more than 50 million users.
According to a report in Reuters citing Ant ...
April 11, 2019Walgreens and VillageMD, a leading national provider of primary healthcare, have announced a partnership to provide primary care services for adult patients in the Houston, Texas area.
VillageMD will operate state-of-the-art ...
April 10, 2019U.S. authorities announced that they have charged a number of individuals in connection with one of the biggest healthcare frauds ever prosecuted in the nation.
The Medicare fraud case has accused ...
April 9, 2019Morgan Stanley analysts predict healthcare to emerge as a key market for Apple, reports in CNBC said Monday (April 8).
Apple’s offerings in the healthcare space could generate $15 billion in ...
April 8, 2019Big Tech is busy disrupting healthcare and shaping the industry’s future, and Amazon is showing the latest example of that — though it’s hardly the only force putting pressure for ...
April 8, 2019Amazon.com is aiming to enable Alexa, its voice-activated digital assistant, to keep tabs on customers’ medicine and provide personal health updates.
As part of an effort to expand into healthcare, Amazon ...
April 7, 2019Some digital health companies are finally getting set to go public.
According to CNBC, Livongo, which provides services and tools to help people manage chronic medical conditions, has reportedly chosen bankers ...
April 5, 2019To provide medications to customers in a matter of hours, CVS Pharmacy is rolling out same-day prescription deliveries. Shoppers can access the offering at 6,000 pharmacy locations with the help ...
April 4, 2019Amazon just entered a whole new market now that Alexa, its voice-activated digital assistant, is HIPAA-compliant, which it means it can handle patients’ sensitive information.
In a blog post, Amazon announced an invitation-only ...
April 4, 2019As blockchain cleaves from its association with cryptocurrencies, one way distributed ledger technology is finding new use cases is through the application to logistics and supply chains.
To that end, H-Source ...
April 2, 2019Amid a competitive landscape that is intensifying along with margin pressures, drugstore chain Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. missed earnings estimates for the fiscal second quarter that ended Feb. 28.
Investors fled ...
April 1, 2019President Donald Trump’s chosen head for the Small Business Administration (SBA) will leave the post and focus on helping Trump’s re-election efforts.
Reports in The Associated Press on Friday (March 29) said SBA ...
March 25, 2019Across all manner of verticals, efficient supply chains can boost margins, but in order to capture those efficiencies, supply chain management processes need a technological overhaul.
So it is with the ...
March 22, 2019Faster payments is starting to make a splash in healthcare — thought as one source cautions, innovation in B2B payments is about more than “getting faster.” Speed also plays a role in authentication — ...
March 21, 2019 There is a gap between what merchants say they want to do toward innovation and what they actually do — and from that gap come insights into retail and payments. A big payments ...
March 21, 2019Here’s another place where passwords need to take a hike: healthcare. Bruce Forman, chief information security officer for UMass Memorial Health Care, tells PYMNTS that healthcare needs to take a ...
March 21, 2019Healthcare is an undoubtedly complicated space for all the players involved (the providers, insurers, patients, pharmaceutical manufacturers), particularly when it comes to payments. Not an entirely surprising fact, given that ...
March 20, 2019 The average North American consumer is projected to have access to 13 networked devices by 2021, while the typical global user will have access to four. As consumers add to ...
March 18, 2019It is generally accepted that digital supply chain management (SCM) strategies are good for business, yet it can be difficult to put a price tag on just how beneficial enhanced ...
March 11, 2019In Australia, more businesses are signing onto the late payments code that punishes late payers. In the UK, there are calls to fine firms that pay freelancers late, and a ...
March 10, 2019HealthJoy, the Chicago healthcare startup, has raised $12.5 million in venture funding.
According to a report citing the company, the Series B round of fundraising was led by U.S. Venture Partners. ...
March 8, 2019There is something to be said for being a happy warrior, and Walmart U.S. CEO Greg Foran was certainly one this week when he spoke of Walmart’s ongoing battle with Amazon for ...
March 8, 2019There is a possibly apocryphal story of Amazon’s early days (around 2001) where Founder Jeff Bezos was invited to Bentonville, Arkansas to discuss the possibility of Walmart purchasing his still ...
March 7, 2019Grocery giant Kroger is thinking about starting a new business venture related to the healthcare field, according to a report in Bloomberg.
Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen told the news outlet ...
March 7, 2019Amazon, J.P. Morgan and Berkshire Hathaway have finally revealed the name for their joint healthcare initiative: “Haven.”
“We want to change the way people experience healthcare so that it is simpler, ...
March 6, 2019Global payments and receivables company Flywire enjoyed strong growth in 2018 that it plans to carry into this coming year and over $10 billion in total payments volume.
Some of the ...
March 5, 2019 Whether going online to view their bank balance, book a doctor’s appointment or buy a pair of shoes, consumers must first confirm their identities. Online authentication is a built-in component ...
March 4, 2019Pharmacies and the delivery of prescription medication are both undergoing significant change, and much of the credit for that can be directly or indirectly attributed to the rise of eCommerce ...
February 28, 2019Amazon chose a 14-year company veteran to head up its new pharmacy business. Citing an internal company document, CNBC reported that Nader Kabbani is now “vice president of consumables, special projects.” ...
February 26, 2019Cedars-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 ...
February 21, 2019Ever since Amazon turned its gaze to healthcare, questions about the eCommerce operator’s plans and intentions have outnumbered answers. That’s still true, and may remain so for the time being, ...
February 15, 2019CVS retail business, separate from its pharmacy operations, has had a difficult few years. Same-store sales have been falling, particularly as some staples that were once common drugstore sales have departed ...
February 15, 2019Data is everywhere, and ripe for the mining. It can help financial firms offer better services and can help healthcare providers set up payment plans tailored to individual clients’ needs ...
February 14, 2019Americans 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 ...
February 11, 2019Tech 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 ...
February 7, 2019Reducing friction is among the top goals of the digital era. Sometimes, real-life payments hassles encourage entrepreneurial action to fix a global problem. Other times, innovators combine cutting-edge technologies in an attempt ...
February 6, 2019The Isle of Man sets up a sandbox for FinTech firms and blockchain efforts. In Japan, some of the largest banks, previously in joint blockchain initiatives, are refocusing their efforts. Facebook ...
February 6, 2019This 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 ...
February 1, 2019Mens health and personal care startup Hims offers up a pretty straightforward business proposition. Founded a little over a year ago, Hims seeks to tap the millennial male market by ...
The U.S. faces a physical shortage today that some are predicting will turn into a crisis over the course of the next decade. According to a report by the Association ...
