Neil joined MedCity News in April 2015, writing about healthcare technology. He covers how hospitals, health insurance companies and other parts of the medical industry leverage cutting-edge technologies: from health IT to telemedicine to healthcare social media.
He has been covering healthcare IT since 2000, across a wide range of publications. He specializes in health information technology, mobile healthcare, healthcare quality, physician practice and hospital management and healthcare finance.
Microsoft chose UPMC Enterprises as its initial innovation partner for Healthcare NExT as the Redmond Empire takes aim at the growing influence of IBM Watson Health, Salesforce, Apple's ResearchKit and other tech heavyweights.
MDLive, which started in 2009, now claims more than 1,300 behavioral health practitioners in its network of online healthcare professionals.
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.
The new WEGO Health Experts is meant to extend the Boston-based company's reach beyond pharma and life sciences.
Cigna also sued to collect a $1.85 billion termination fee and asked for more than $13 billion in additional damages.
Aetna is on the hook for a $1 billion breakup fee. Humana subsequently announced that it would exit all individual commercial markets at the beginning of 2018.
"He will first and foremost look at how public policy will affect the practice of medicine," said Julius W. Hobson, a former American Medical Association lobbyist who has known Price since 1994.
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.
Having insurance only means that someone else will pick up part of the tab, not that the care would be of high quality. And the U.S. certainly has had nothing close to the greatest healthcare in the world, just the most expensive.
CareDash is profitable, thanks in no small part to finding a somewhat untapped niche in the physician ratings world: low- to middle-income communities.
The idea is to showcase the Philadelphia region as a hub of healthcare innovation that can, among other things, help Biden's Cancer Moonshot effort.
GE Ventures led the $10.8 million Series A investment, joined by Greycroft Partners, Flare Capital Partners and Manatt Ventures.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Anthem said it would not only appeal, but that it would ask for an expedited hearing. Anthem noted that more than 99 percent of shareholders of both companies approved the merger, not that it's relevant in an antitrust case.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued the decision late Wednesday.
WelbeHealth is taking advantage of a 2015 rule change by CMS to allow private, for-profit companies to support the Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE).
The new Clinical Mobility Solution helps integrate multiple mobile applications into clinician workflows.
This represents the president's second change of opinion on the matter in the last week.