September 10, 2019Digital technology and the digital ecosystem are helping to drive discount programs for healthcare, a trend that promises to gain even more traction in the 2020s. Even so, the jury ...
September 9, 2019Documents leaked to The Guardian about a future Siri update detail the ability to have a “back-and-forth conversation about health problems,” BGR.com reported on Sunday (Sept. 8).
The healthcare conversations could ...
September 6, 2019Groupon is selling body scans and ultrasounds in a move that highlights the state of modern healthcare, according to a report by NPR.
“Whether or not a person may philosophically agree ...
September 4, 2019Retail innovation can be found in a variety of places – and that includes pharmacies, where the retail model is being revised and even reinvented.
One reason for all of that? ...
August 30, 2019With a deeper move into the market for primary and mental healthcare, Walmart is opening a Walmart Health clinic in Georgia. The retailer updated its website with a link to ...
August 27, 2019QuickBooks Online Payroll customers can now use the payroll platform to offer employees healthcare benefits, the company reported on Tuesday (Aug. 27) in a press release.
Intuit’s technology-driven payroll solution leverages ...
August 22, 2019The push to offer more online privacy to increasingly concerned consumers continues.
This time, it’s a move from Google, but it’s unclear how far these efforts will really go, and whether ...
August 21, 2019The co-founder of Google‘s artificial intelligence (AI) lab has been placed on leave due to issues with some of his projects.
Mustafa Suleyman, who runs DeepMind’s “applied” division and has been ...
August 20, 2019Apple Health is undergoing personnel changes after numerous departures following years of internal friction about objectives, CNBC reported on Tuesday (Aug. 20).
The company’s healthcare team has been at odds for ...
August 16, 2019In many retail markets, there is incredible pressure to pick up the pace of delivery. Amazon switched from two-day shipping as its standard base (rapidly followed by Walmart and others), ...
August 15, 2019Medpricer, a technology company that targets the medical and healthcare services with cost management solutions, is rolling out a spend analytics tool.
In a press release Wednesday (Aug. 14), Medpricer announced ...
August 8, 2019After its parent company announced plans earlier this year to close 200 stores in the United Kingdom, Walgreens is looking to shutter 200 locations in the United States. The pharmacy ...
August 6, 2019What to do with retail malls?
How about making them into doctors’ offices? That is among the latest trends as retail reinvents itself, and technology and other trends force new uses ...
August 5, 2019After successful test runs in Boston, Philadelphia and Tampa, the CVS membership program CarePass will expand nationally with free delivery for an annual fee, CNBC reported on Monday (Aug. 5).
Membership ...
August 1, 2019Zelis Healthcare and RedCard Systems have announced they will be merging their organizations to create a healthcare payments optimization platform.
The platform will utilize market-leading technology and solutions to price, pay ...
July 30, 2019Technology giants Apple, Microsoft and Google are teaming up with a number of healthcare providers to test out the CARIN Blue Button API.
The newly released data model and draft implementation ...
July 23, 2019Slowly but steadily, healthcare is becoming more mobile about payments, and that trend – a very long time in coming – appears to have picked up steam in recent months. ...
July 23, 2019The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has written a letter to Curaleaf regarding its alleged illegal selling of CBD products and its use of “unsubstantiated claims” about CBD being able ...
July 22, 2019A payment app being launched by health insurer Anthem Inc. will allow consumers use their smartphones to schedule and pay for medical visits, get diagnoses and text with doctors.
People can ...
July 22, 2019Stifel Financial Corp. has announced the launch of a venture banking and lending business to provide debt capital financing and commercial banking solutions to growth companies and their investors.
The business ...
July 19, 2019Amazon’s pharmacy arm PillPack could soon be blocked from accessing patients’ histories, pitting the online giant against Surescripts, an electronic prescribing company that manages about 80 percent of all U.S. ...
July 15, 2019Data-driven maternal and infant health tech startup Mahmee has garnered $3 million from tech investor Mark Cuban, tennis icon and entrepreneur Serena Williams and others to build out its digital landscape aimed ...
July 11, 2019Fewer purchasing managers in the healthcare industry are procuring goods from Amazon, according to a new survey by UBS Group and reported by on Bloomberg Wednesday (July 10).
Though hospitals reportedly ...
July 10, 2019The National Health Service (NHS) in the U.K. has teamed up with Amazon to provide medical advice for a variety of ailments, in an effort to cut down on hospital ...
July 8, 2019Payment tech company Patientco has joined the Epic App Orchard Marketplace with two new payment solutions, according to a release.
One of them is called Patientco Patient Payments, which offers support ...
July 3, 2019Cash flow is a fickle beast for any organization, but in the healthcare sector, bottlenecks and friction points are aplenty thanks to issues like late patient payments, insurance payouts and ...
July 3, 2019Nestlé is piloting a blockchain project that focuses on supply chain information, with an emphasis on food sourcing, the latest in a round of food-centric DLT initiatives. Elsewhere, real estate transactions ...
July 2, 2019Despite that fact that stocks are reaching near record highs, 77 percent of companies that have issued pre-announcements ahead of earnings reports said profits will be under Wall Street expectations, ...
June 27, 2019Consumers are increasingly responsible for out-of-pocket healthcare costs — even with insurance. Some opt for payment plans when available; others just don’t pay their bills.
Mounting debt has resulted in hospitals ...
June 25, 2019U.S. Bank has teamed up with accounts payable automation firm Inworks to streamline business-to-business payments within the healthcare sector.
In a press release on Monday (June 24), the firms said their ...
June 24, 2019Healthcare needs some fixing, especially when it comes to providing a continuum of efficient care, making it affordable — and getting providers paid. Lots of specialists are working on the ...
June 21, 2019Digital health startup Xealth has announced that it has raised an additional $3 million in its Series A financing, bringing the total amount raised in this funding round to $14 ...
June 20, 2019Stoking fears that Amazon will disrupt pharmacies, a CVS legal filing is reportedly aiming to prevent an ex-executive from working at the eCommerce retailer’s recently-acquired subsidiary PillPack. Jefferies Analyst Brian ...
June 20, 2019Complaints about healthcare will never cease. After all, the industry is one where illness combines with significant bills and payments, two things that are pretty much a negative for everyone ...
June 19, 2019P2P payments can play a big role in the B2B realm, while artificial intelligence is pulling more weight in the world of fraud. Facebook is seeking more of a voice ...
June 19, 2019Elective medical procedures — specific medical services consumers want or require, but that are not covered in full by their current insurance providers — are popular in the U.S. According ...
June 18, 2019Fraud is a two-headed beast, but the beast can be defeated as more consumers flock to marketplaces and other eCommerce destinations. Meanwhile, there are fresh ideas about how to scale ...
June 18, 2019 The demand for elective medical procedures in the U.S. is sky-high, but high costs severely limit consumers’ access to them.
The elective medical procedures market is 63 million consumers-strong, and accounts ...
June 17, 2019The United States is currently weathering a healthcare worker shortage that is estimated to get quite a bit worse before it gets better. According to healthcare staffing consultancy Mercer, to ...
June 6, 2019Recent healthcare data hacks have impacted almost 20 million people — and some members of Congress are demanding answers.
New York-based American Medical Collection Agency has been named as the victim ...
Digital technology and the digital ecosystem are helping to drive discount programs for healthcare, a trend that promises to gain even more traction in the 2020s. Even so, the jury ...
Documents leaked to The Guardian about a future Siri update detail the ability to have a “back-and-forth conversation about health problems,” BGR.com reported on Sunday (Sept. 8).
The healthcare conversations could ...
Groupon is selling body scans and ultrasounds in a move that highlights the state of modern healthcare, according to a report by NPR.
“Whether or not a person may philosophically agree ...
Retail innovation can be found in a variety of places – and that includes pharmacies, where the retail model is being revised and even reinvented.
One reason for all of that? ...
With a deeper move into the market for primary and mental healthcare, Walmart is opening a Walmart Health clinic in Georgia. The retailer updated its website with a link to ...
QuickBooks Online Payroll customers can now use the payroll platform to offer employees healthcare benefits, the company reported on Tuesday (Aug. 27) in a press release.
Intuit’s technology-driven payroll solution leverages ...
The push to offer more online privacy to increasingly concerned consumers continues.
This time, it’s a move from Google, but it’s unclear how far these efforts will really go, and whether ...
The co-founder of Google‘s artificial intelligence (AI) lab has been placed on leave due to issues with some of his projects.
Mustafa Suleyman, who runs DeepMind’s “applied” division and has been ...
Apple Health is undergoing personnel changes after numerous departures following years of internal friction about objectives, CNBC reported on Tuesday (Aug. 20).
The company’s healthcare team has been at odds for ...
In many retail markets, there is incredible pressure to pick up the pace of delivery. Amazon switched from two-day shipping as its standard base (rapidly followed by Walmart and others), ...
Medpricer, a technology company that targets the medical and healthcare services with cost management solutions, is rolling out a spend analytics tool.
In a press release Wednesday (Aug. 14), Medpricer announced ...
After its parent company announced plans earlier this year to close 200 stores in the United Kingdom, Walgreens is looking to shutter 200 locations in the United States. The pharmacy ...
What to do with retail malls?
How about making them into doctors’ offices? That is among the latest trends as retail reinvents itself, and technology and other trends force new uses ...
After successful test runs in Boston, Philadelphia and Tampa, the CVS membership program CarePass will expand nationally with free delivery for an annual fee, CNBC reported on Monday (Aug. 5).
Membership ...
Zelis Healthcare and RedCard Systems have announced they will be merging their organizations to create a healthcare payments optimization platform.
The platform will utilize market-leading technology and solutions to price, pay ...
Technology giants Apple, Microsoft and Google are teaming up with a number of healthcare providers to test out the CARIN Blue Button API.
The newly released data model and draft implementation ...
Slowly but steadily, healthcare is becoming more mobile about payments, and that trend – a very long time in coming – appears to have picked up steam in recent months. ...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has written a letter to Curaleaf regarding its alleged illegal selling of CBD products and its use of “unsubstantiated claims” about CBD being able ...
A payment app being launched by health insurer Anthem Inc. will allow consumers use their smartphones to schedule and pay for medical visits, get diagnoses and text with doctors.
People can ...
Stifel Financial Corp. has announced the launch of a venture banking and lending business to provide debt capital financing and commercial banking solutions to growth companies and their investors.
The business ...
Amazon’s pharmacy arm PillPack could soon be blocked from accessing patients’ histories, pitting the online giant against Surescripts, an electronic prescribing company that manages about 80 percent of all U.S. ...
Data-driven maternal and infant health tech startup Mahmee has garnered $3 million from tech investor Mark Cuban, tennis icon and entrepreneur Serena Williams and others to build out its digital landscape aimed ...
Fewer purchasing managers in the healthcare industry are procuring goods from Amazon, according to a new survey by UBS Group and reported by on Bloomberg Wednesday (July 10).
Though hospitals reportedly ...
The National Health Service (NHS) in the U.K. has teamed up with Amazon to provide medical advice for a variety of ailments, in an effort to cut down on hospital ...
Payment tech company Patientco has joined the Epic App Orchard Marketplace with two new payment solutions, according to a release.
One of them is called Patientco Patient Payments, which offers support ...
Cash flow is a fickle beast for any organization, but in the healthcare sector, bottlenecks and friction points are aplenty thanks to issues like late patient payments, insurance payouts and ...
Nestlé is piloting a blockchain project that focuses on supply chain information, with an emphasis on food sourcing, the latest in a round of food-centric DLT initiatives. Elsewhere, real estate transactions ...
Despite that fact that stocks are reaching near record highs, 77 percent of companies that have issued pre-announcements ahead of earnings reports said profits will be under Wall Street expectations, ...
Consumers are increasingly responsible for out-of-pocket healthcare costs — even with insurance. Some opt for payment plans when available; others just don’t pay their bills.
Mounting debt has resulted in hospitals ...
U.S. Bank has teamed up with accounts payable automation firm Inworks to streamline business-to-business payments within the healthcare sector.
In a press release on Monday (June 24), the firms said their ...
Healthcare needs some fixing, especially when it comes to providing a continuum of efficient care, making it affordable — and getting providers paid. Lots of specialists are working on the ...
Digital health startup Xealth has announced that it has raised an additional $3 million in its Series A financing, bringing the total amount raised in this funding round to $14 ...
Stoking fears that Amazon will disrupt pharmacies, a CVS legal filing is reportedly aiming to prevent an ex-executive from working at the eCommerce retailer’s recently-acquired subsidiary PillPack. Jefferies Analyst Brian ...
Complaints about healthcare will never cease. After all, the industry is one where illness combines with significant bills and payments, two things that are pretty much a negative for everyone ...
P2P payments can play a big role in the B2B realm, while artificial intelligence is pulling more weight in the world of fraud. Facebook is seeking more of a voice ...
Elective medical procedures — specific medical services consumers want or require, but that are not covered in full by their current insurance providers — are popular in the U.S. According ...
Fraud is a two-headed beast, but the beast can be defeated as more consumers flock to marketplaces and other eCommerce destinations. Meanwhile, there are fresh ideas about how to scale ...
The demand for elective medical procedures in the U.S. is sky-high, but high costs severely limit consumers’ access to them.
The elective medical procedures market is 63 million consumers-strong, and accounts ...
Recent healthcare data hacks have impacted almost 20 million people — and some members of Congress are demanding answers.
New York-based American Medical Collection Agency has been named as the victim ...
