Mackey, who plans to retire from Whole Foods on September 1, teased a second act. While bemoaning the lack of help patients get in making impactful lifestyle changes, he vowed to "do something about it" and said an announcement is forthcoming.
If you tuned in for the first five nights of the Democratic presidential debates, you might think “Medicare for All” and providing universal care are the only health care ideas Democrats have. That's not true.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
A MedCity Influencer responds to a post that calls into question the value of the theory of Disruptive Innovation, as conceived by Harvard academic and management expert Clayton Christensen.
Value-based payments, cybersecurity and healthcare reform are among healthcare leaders' top-of-mind issues for next year, according to the HealthCare Executive Group's 2018 HCEG Top 10 list.
Republican health analysts said party officials had little choice but to keep trying to reach consensus — or at least enough consensus to pass a bill out of the House.
Last year proved a slow one for dealmaking in the life sciences space. But that didn’t stop two of the major legal players in it from consummating one themselves: In November, Arnold & Porter and Kaye Scholer agreed to merge, bringing together two formidable healthcare practices.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
In a press briefing Monday morning, President Donald Trump said, according to multiple news outlets, that, "Nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated."
If and when rates rise again, the cost of debt service will be competing with healthcare and a couple other major components of the federal budget for ever scarcer dollars, Leavitt explained at HIMSS17 this week.
Here's a prescription for healthcare reform from the executive chairman and founder of a company that helps patients shop for their healthcare.
Lost in the political wrangling over the Affordable Care Act is that the ACA included much more than the individual health insurance mandate.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Outgoing national health IT coordinator Dr. Vindell Washington is optimistic that there is no going back on interoperability. "That kind of progress will be very difficult to veer from," he said.
There has been a ton of progress in health IT since Steve Lieber took the reins of HIMSS in 2000, but there is so much work left to be done.
Leading Republicans have vowed that even if they repeal most of the ACA early in 2017, a replacement will not hurt those currently receiving benefits. But Republicans have also pledged to repeal the taxes that Democrats used to pay for their health law.
"The [incoming] administration recognizes that the problems with the U.S. healthcare system did not begin with — and will not end with the repeal of — the ACA," the Trump statement said.
Republican ideas on healthcare were presented by conservatives, while Trump himself has been at least a liberal and frankly more of a socialist when it comes to healthcare policy.