March 27, 2020Instacart shoppers plan to walk off the job on strike Monday (March 30), according to a Medium post Friday (March 27) by worker representatives. Shoppers are the workers who shop for ...
March 26, 2020Airbnb said that it’s going to provide free or subsidized housing for coronavirus responders, according to a blog post by the company.
The company has a goal of helping around 100,000 ...
March 19, 2020New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has asked Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to make good on his offer to manufacture ventilators to combat the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, ...
March 19, 2020While there is no shortage of individual negative effects of the COVID-19 epidemic, the ongoing uncertainty of the pandemic’s effect on people in the U.S. and around the world remains ...
March 17, 2020It was supposed to be a thriving retail center in Milwaukee when it was built seven years ago. Right downtown, 10,000 square feet, enough room for five storefronts with a ...
March 11, 2020The ride into 2020 has been bumpy to say the least, and beset with challenges. Some were known issues. Payments security, solving the byzantine world of healthcare payments, expanding the reach and efficacy of digital ...
March 10, 2020In today’s top payment news, retail remains a bright spot in the markets, Ant Financial has rolled out a strategy for digital evolution in China, and the Consumer Financial Protection ...
March 10, 2020To solve the healthcare payments puzzle — look to eCommerce.
In an interview with Karen Webster, Paul Ketchel, founder and CEO of MDsave, said that online platform models could help bring ...
March 9, 2020New federal rules will standardize how health data is shared and mandate that people have digital access to their own medical records, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday (March ...
March 9, 2020Unless one is having a medical emergency, going to an ER, in general, is often not the best way for a patient to receive care for more minor ailments. It ...
March 7, 2020Amazon has been secretly working for years to cure the common cold with an initiative called “Project Gesundheit,” according to a report from CNBC.
The company has staffed more than 100 ...
March 6, 2020The laws of economics — supply and demand — state that as items become scarce, prices go up. The law of unintended consequences states that the outcomes of human actions ...
March 5, 2020Perhaps it may be the coronavirus – understandably so – that is spurring Americans to think of healthcare costs.
And healthcare costs are increasingly at top of mind as voters eye ...
March 5, 2020Although house calls were the most common method by which doctors gave medical care just a few generations ago, as of the second decade of the 20th century, most people ...
March 2, 2020Healthcare in the U.S. is a massive industry.
According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, $3.5 trillion — or roughly $11,000 per person — was spent in the U.S. in ...
March 1, 2020Walmart and Verizon are in talks to create a 5G wireless network at Walmart locations using antennas and other such items.
The experiment would be a high-profile test of the next-generation ...
February 28, 2020Sphere, a leader in end-to-end payment solutions, will team up with VisitPay, which works with medical patient payment and security, to improve patient payment processes.
The two entities launched on Thursday ...
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 ...
Instacart shoppers plan to walk off the job on strike Monday (March 30), according to a Medium post Friday (March 27) by worker representatives. Shoppers are the workers who shop for ...
Airbnb said that it’s going to provide free or subsidized housing for coronavirus responders, according to a blog post by the company.
The company has a goal of helping around 100,000 ...
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has asked Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to make good on his offer to manufacture ventilators to combat the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, ...
While there is no shortage of individual negative effects of the COVID-19 epidemic, the ongoing uncertainty of the pandemic’s effect on people in the U.S. and around the world remains ...
It was supposed to be a thriving retail center in Milwaukee when it was built seven years ago. Right downtown, 10,000 square feet, enough room for five storefronts with a ...
The ride into 2020 has been bumpy to say the least, and beset with challenges. Some were known issues. Payments security, solving the byzantine world of healthcare payments, expanding the reach and efficacy of digital ...
In today’s top payment news, retail remains a bright spot in the markets, Ant Financial has rolled out a strategy for digital evolution in China, and the Consumer Financial Protection ...
To solve the healthcare payments puzzle — look to eCommerce.
In an interview with Karen Webster, Paul Ketchel, founder and CEO of MDsave, said that online platform models could help bring ...
New federal rules will standardize how health data is shared and mandate that people have digital access to their own medical records, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday (March ...
Unless one is having a medical emergency, going to an ER, in general, is often not the best way for a patient to receive care for more minor ailments. It ...
Amazon has been secretly working for years to cure the common cold with an initiative called “Project Gesundheit,” according to a report from CNBC.
The company has staffed more than 100 ...
The laws of economics — supply and demand — state that as items become scarce, prices go up. The law of unintended consequences states that the outcomes of human actions ...
Perhaps it may be the coronavirus – understandably so – that is spurring Americans to think of healthcare costs.
And healthcare costs are increasingly at top of mind as voters eye ...
Although house calls were the most common method by which doctors gave medical care just a few generations ago, as of the second decade of the 20th century, most people ...
Healthcare in the U.S. is a massive industry.
According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, $3.5 trillion — or roughly $11,000 per person — was spent in the U.S. in ...
Walmart and Verizon are in talks to create a 5G wireless network at Walmart locations using antennas and other such items.
The experiment would be a high-profile test of the next-generation ...
Sphere, a leader in end-to-end payment solutions, will team up with VisitPay, which works with medical patient payment and security, to improve patient payment processes.
The two entities launched on Thursday ...
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 ...
