Stephanie Baum
Stephanie Baum is the Director of Special Projects for MedCityNews. She graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania and has worked across radio, print and video. She's worked for Dow Jones & Co., The Legal Intelligencer, The Christian Science Monitor, AP Radio's London bureau, and United Business Media.
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Transforming the patient experience to enable informed healthcare decisions
Although the Covid-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on healthcare delivery, in many ways it has underscored the need for a healthcare system that can help patients easily navigate healthcare concerns as well as price transparency.
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How is population health innovation unfolding in Louisiana?
With the annual INVEST Population Health virtual conference coming up November 16-18, here’s a look at our collaboration partner New Orleans Business Alliance. It plays a vital role in helping to stimulate the local economy by supporting the development and advancement of the healthcare and biotech infrastructure.
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How are healthcare organizations shifting to digital documents?
In order to gain insight into how organizations are thinking about digitizing medical documents and the strategy behind those decisions, we’re conducting a brief survey of the MedCity News audience and will publish a report based on this survey’s findings.
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Covid-19’s digital imperative for biopharma and medtech
The disruption to biopharma and medtech businesses caused by Covid-19, such as product launch and clinical trial delays, has underscored the need for a more digital focused strategy.
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Digital health reimbursement: The transforming landscape
Chance Scott, a Director in life sciences at Guidehouse, talks about some of the challenges digital health innovators face, from reimbursement by private plans to the future of reimbursement for other telehealth tools and digital therapeutics.
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And the winners of INVEST Digital Health Virtual Pitch Perfect contest are…..
The INVEST Digital Health Virtual conference Pitch Perfect competition, from September 21-25, had some intense competition between the healthcare startup participants. Thanks to all the entrepreneurs, judges and sponsors who took part.
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Covid-19 accelerates UnityPoint Health’s digital health strategy
In an interview, Matthew Warrens, UnityPoint Health’s Managing Director of Innovation, said the health system robustly embraced technology solutions offered by companies within the UnityPoint Health Ventures portfolio to not only support patients but also for the benefit of employees.
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The legal ramifications of rapidly scaling telehealth (Q&A)
What are some of the short- and long-term consequences of these moves, and what does the future portend? In a Q&A, Fredrikson & Byron Shareholders Ryan Johnson and Katherine Ilten share their insights on this hot topic.
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How can payers use financial incentives to guide consumer health spending behavior?
More than half of consumers say they are likely to use recommended providers or facilities if they receive a financial reward.
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MedCity Pivot Podcast: A conversation with AstraZeneca’s U.S. Head of Medical Affairs Oncology
In this episode of MedCity Pivot podcast, we talk with Camille Hertzka, AstraZeneca’s U.S. Head of Medical Affairs Oncology, about the clinical study findings on lung cancer presented at ESMO and the rapidly changing landscape for lung cancer treatment.
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Bristol Myers Squibb SVP Ho Sung Cho highlights pioneering work with protein degradation in support of drug development
In a podcast with MedCity News, Cho talked about the company’s profile in the San Diego life science ecosystem, the need to fail fast and frequently in the early stages of drug development and the work BMS is doing to combat Covid-19.
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With Covid-19, healthcare in-house counsel face their greatest test yet
Even before the public health crisis, the role of in-house counsel for hospitals and health systems was evolving with the need to be a strategic business partner. Covid-19 has added to their priorities with pressing needs such as addressing PPE shortages and scaling telemedicine access.
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A Covid-19 progress report
The quest to develop a cure for Covid-19 has been a historic journey so far, driven by hope and urgency, with a mix of disappointing setbacks and encouraging progress.
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Life sciences in a changing world: Startup outlook through 2020
As early stage, high-growth startups prepare for the future, venture capital and partnerships will look different but opportunity is still out there.
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Survey: Health insurers need to bridge communication gap with members
A survey of consumers with health insurance spells out how they want payers to communicate with them and how frequently. It also touches on the impact of Covid-19 on care delivery.
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J.P. Morgan on the state of life sciences and strategies to fuel innovation
In an interview, Peter Meath, J.P. Morgan’s co-head of Healthcare and Life Sciences, Middle Market Banking & Specialized Industries, says the Covid-19 pandemic has cast a bright light on the life sciences industry with startups raising venture funding at record levels as the virus has transformed the way people usually do business in the sector.
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Who won the MedCity INVEST Pitch Perfect competition?
Healthcare startups across health services, health IT, medical devices, biopharma and diagnostics tracks took part in the week-long competition at the conference July 20-24. Here are the winners for the five tracks.
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Fruit Street Health launches employer advisory board to manage healthcare costs with digital health
The goal of Fruit Street Labs is to form a collaborative relationship between Fruit Street and employers so that they can jointly develop telemedicine and digital health solutions that address rising healthcare costs and chronic disease in employee populations.
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How Presbyterian Is Using Digital Health Tools to Address Pandemic Challenges
Timing is everything. In the case of Presbyterian Healthcare Services, its adoption of the Bright.MD platform in 2017 to facilitate telehealth appointments was fortuitous. Read now to learn more.
