Healthcare

Health care, health-care, or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals in allied health fields.

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Cedars-Sinai Tests Smart Hospital Rooms With Alexa

Cedars-Sinai Tests Smart Hospital Rooms With Alexa
Cedars-Sinai Tests Smart Hospital Rooms With Alexa
February 26, 2019  |  Healthcare

Cedars-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...

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Amazon’s Healthcare Plans Include Insurance, AI Utility
Amazon’s Healthcare Plans Include Insurance, AI Utility
February 21, 2019  |  Amazon

Ever 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...

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Can Healthcare Services Revitalize Retail For CVS?
Can Healthcare Services Revitalize Retail For CVS?
February 15, 2019  |  Retail

CVS 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...

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Data As A Prescription For FIs And Healthy Healthcare Collections
Data As A Prescription For FIs And Healthy Healthcare Collections
February 15, 2019  |  Today In Data

Data is everywhere, and ripe for the mining. It can help financial firms offer better services and can help healthcare providers set up payment plans...

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How Payment Plans Can Cure Healthcare Payments’ Biggest Problem
How Payment Plans Can Cure Healthcare Payments’ Biggest Problem
February 14, 2019  |  Healthcare

Americans 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...

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Apple, VA To Provide Health Records To 9M Veterans
Apple, VA To Provide Health Records To 9M Veterans
February 11, 2019  |  Healthcare

Tech giant Apple will provide its Health Records feature on the iPhone to the upwards of nine million veterans in facilities all over the country,...

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Merchants And Innovators Fight Friction — But Sometimes It Wins
Merchants And Innovators Fight Friction — But Sometimes It Wins
February 07, 2019  |  Today In Data

Reducing 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...

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Blockchain Gets A Nod In The Isle Of Man
Blockchain Gets A Nod In The Isle Of Man
February 06, 2019  |  B2B Payments

The Isle of Man sets up a sandbox for FinTech firms and blockchain efforts. In Japan, some of the largest banks, previously in joint blockchain...

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