On the surface, it sounds positively delightful - who wouldn't want to help dear grandma avoid the nursing home? But as is often the case with these sweeping government proposals, the devil is in the details.
Communication with patients should be a top area of focus as urgent cares look to develop their marketing strategies, tailored to each generation they are trying to reach, with an eye toward relieving unnecessary demand on emergency departments.
Executives from Imagine360, Verily, BrightInsight, Lantern, and Rhapsody shared their approaches to reducing healthcare costs and facilitating digital transformation.
The 2017 EBRI/Greenwald & Associates Consumer Engagement in Health Care Survey found millennials are more likely than Gen Xers and baby boomers to be interested in telehealth, research healthcare choices and utilize a health cost-tracking tool.
Lab tests provide impact more than 70 percent of medical decisions and comprise upwards of 80 percent of a patient’s EMR.
Medicare’s Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, which finances about half the health program for seniors and the disabled, won’t run out of money until 2030, the program’s trustees said Monday. That’s four years later than projected last year and 13 years later than projected the year before the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Unlike Medicare, […]
This graph is a good visual depiction of how aging baby boomers, advances in technology and shifts in the way healthcare is delivered under reform may influence jobs in the healthcare sector. In a Labor Day article, PBS directed us to interesting data published last year by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Occupational […]
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
Ohio-based private equity firm Link-age Ventures is raising a $20 million to $35 million technology fund this year. The team involved says the fund will invest in everything from early stage to growth-stage larger players in serving the aging population’s needs that include healthcare services and IT. “We are interested in the interplay between the […]