February 27, 2020Hand sanitizer shortages. Face mask counterfeiting. And some of the most dramatic disruptions in supply chains around the world. The coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on the markets in more ...
February 25, 2020New Zealand is considering changes to its treatment of cryptocurrencies, including dropping a tax on goods and services that many people are unhappy with, according to CoinDesk.
The goods and services ...
February 24, 2020SoftBank’s second Vision Fund has invested in two companies, artificial intelligence company Behavox and healthcare-facing company Karius, according to Reuters.
The fund put $100 million into Behavox, which is based in ...
February 21, 2020A cyberattack at NRC Health has prompted questions about the security of its data and overall patient privacy, CNBC reported.
On Feb. 11, the attack hit the publicly traded health company, ...
February 18, 2020Digital banking and payments firm i2c is partnering with FinTech healthcare credit card SmartHealth PayCard, i2c announced on Tuesday (Feb. 18).
SmartHealth PayCard is enabled with the agile processing of i2c ...
February 18, 2020The U.S. healthcare system is a multi-trillion dollar industry, but one rife with inefficiencies, especially when it comes to payments. In an interview with PYMNTS, Todd Harbison, chief revenue officer ...
February 17, 2020A digital-first world needs a digital-first healthcare payments reboot, especially as consumers become among its largest payors. It’s one of the reasons that Flywire CEO Mike Massaro tells Karen Webster ...
February 16, 2020SoftBank will add $1 billion this year to its $5 billion Latin America Fund introduced in 2019, adding to last year’s $1.6 billion, Bloomberg reported on Friday (Feb. 14).
Its investment ...
February 13, 2020Payment processing was good to financial transaction provider WEX in 2019, as the company reported double-digit growth for the year in its earnings report today. While the company is known ...
February 13, 2020Vertical payments startup Flywire has acquired healthcare technology startup Simplee, while also closing a $120 million Series E investment round led by Goldman Sachs, the company announced on Thursday (Feb. ...
February 12, 2020 Real-time or instant payments have proved their worth to the businesses — and individuals — that need quick transactions to stay afloat. The benefits of such payment solutions include crucial ...
February 7, 2020At the dawn of a new decade, healthcare stands poised to embrace digital payments, and finally kill the check.
Instant disbursements are fast cementing their place as a favored payout method ...
February 6, 2020Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba Group has set up a special platform featuring global medical supplies to help fight the Coronavirus.
The Alibaba Global Direct Sourcing Platform is a business-to-business (B2B) “information ...
February 6, 2020San Francisco’s Verana Health, a health-data startup, raised $100 million from investors, such as GV (Google) and Bain Capital. The plentiful interest in Verana signals the interest in new data-driven ...
January 30, 2020A new drone delivery program by Matternet, and operated by UPS, will fly blood samples and other medical necessities to those in need, according to reports.
The program will be Matternet’s ...
January 29, 2020 Spring may seem far away, but U.S. businesses are likely already feeling tax season’s pressures. Filing is exhausting and complicated for individuals, and businesses experience those tax difficulties to a ...
January 26, 2020Peter Lee, corporate vice president of Microsoft Healthcare, wants to make sure patients have access to their healthcare records.
Lee, speaking with CNBC, said he wanted to follow the general trend ...
January 26, 2020Supermarket pharmacy counters are closing across the U.S. as they struggle to keep customers coming back.
The move, happening in states as varied as Washington, Minnesota and everywhere in between, comes ...
January 22, 2020The national healthcare debate rages on, with cost at or near the center of most deliberations. Less talked about — and yet intrinsic to the matter — is the subject ...
January 21, 2020Amazon has filed for a trademark for Amazon Pharmacy in several countries, according to a report by CNBC.
Those countries include Australia, Canada and the U.K. The trademarks illustrate how Amazon ...
January 21, 2020Healthcare transportation companies Ride Health and Uber Health have teamed up on non-emergency medical transportation to expand options for people seeking an easier way to get to their medical appointments, ...
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. ...
Hand sanitizer shortages. Face mask counterfeiting. And some of the most dramatic disruptions in supply chains around the world. The coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on the markets in more ...
New Zealand is considering changes to its treatment of cryptocurrencies, including dropping a tax on goods and services that many people are unhappy with, according to CoinDesk.
The goods and services ...
SoftBank’s second Vision Fund has invested in two companies, artificial intelligence company Behavox and healthcare-facing company Karius, according to Reuters.
The fund put $100 million into Behavox, which is based in ...
A cyberattack at NRC Health has prompted questions about the security of its data and overall patient privacy, CNBC reported.
On Feb. 11, the attack hit the publicly traded health company, ...
Digital banking and payments firm i2c is partnering with FinTech healthcare credit card SmartHealth PayCard, i2c announced on Tuesday (Feb. 18).
SmartHealth PayCard is enabled with the agile processing of i2c ...
The U.S. healthcare system is a multi-trillion dollar industry, but one rife with inefficiencies, especially when it comes to payments. In an interview with PYMNTS, Todd Harbison, chief revenue officer ...
A digital-first world needs a digital-first healthcare payments reboot, especially as consumers become among its largest payors. It’s one of the reasons that Flywire CEO Mike Massaro tells Karen Webster ...
SoftBank will add $1 billion this year to its $5 billion Latin America Fund introduced in 2019, adding to last year’s $1.6 billion, Bloomberg reported on Friday (Feb. 14).
Its investment ...
Payment processing was good to financial transaction provider WEX in 2019, as the company reported double-digit growth for the year in its earnings report today. While the company is known ...
Vertical payments startup Flywire has acquired healthcare technology startup Simplee, while also closing a $120 million Series E investment round led by Goldman Sachs, the company announced on Thursday (Feb. ...
Real-time or instant payments have proved their worth to the businesses — and individuals — that need quick transactions to stay afloat. The benefits of such payment solutions include crucial ...
At the dawn of a new decade, healthcare stands poised to embrace digital payments, and finally kill the check.
Instant disbursements are fast cementing their place as a favored payout method ...
Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba Group has set up a special platform featuring global medical supplies to help fight the Coronavirus.
The Alibaba Global Direct Sourcing Platform is a business-to-business (B2B) “information ...
San Francisco’s Verana Health, a health-data startup, raised $100 million from investors, such as GV (Google) and Bain Capital. The plentiful interest in Verana signals the interest in new data-driven ...
A new drone delivery program by Matternet, and operated by UPS, will fly blood samples and other medical necessities to those in need, according to reports.
The program will be Matternet’s ...
Spring may seem far away, but U.S. businesses are likely already feeling tax season’s pressures. Filing is exhausting and complicated for individuals, and businesses experience those tax difficulties to a ...
Peter Lee, corporate vice president of Microsoft Healthcare, wants to make sure patients have access to their healthcare records.
Lee, speaking with CNBC, said he wanted to follow the general trend ...
Supermarket pharmacy counters are closing across the U.S. as they struggle to keep customers coming back.
The move, happening in states as varied as Washington, Minnesota and everywhere in between, comes ...
The national healthcare debate rages on, with cost at or near the center of most deliberations. Less talked about — and yet intrinsic to the matter — is the subject ...
Amazon has filed for a trademark for Amazon Pharmacy in several countries, according to a report by CNBC.
Those countries include Australia, Canada and the U.K. The trademarks illustrate how Amazon ...
Healthcare transportation companies Ride Health and Uber Health have teamed up on non-emergency medical transportation to expand options for people seeking an easier way to get to their medical appointments, ...
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. ...
