Physician social network Doximity has entered into a partnership with the Society of Hospital Medicine to improve communications for care coordination and boost the profile of hospitalists.
We still have a ways to go if we want to truly improve patient care and outcomes.
At the Payer Insights sessions on Day 1 of ViVE 2024, a panel on prior authorization offered compelling insights from speakers who shared the positive developments in this area after years of mounting frustration. Speakers also shared challenges as they work with providers to figure out how policy developments and technology will work in practice.
As I walked out of HIMSS15 at the McCormick Place convention center in Chicago this week, I had a new sense of empathy for healthcare buyers. Finding the signal within the noise of the show has never been more challenging. Instead of the useful, clear information needed to help buyers make informed decisions, there were […]
Download MedCity’s Startup Index for November I hate it when people call ideas or businesses “sexy.” People are sexy, ideas and inanimate objects are not. When I hear a person use that term to describe a startup company, I think, “Shallow. Short attention span. Not interested in solving real problems.” A weak idea delivered via […]
You can’t call an 18-year-old company a startup, so Valence Health doesn’t fit into that category. However, news from the Chicago company this year has been as exciting and impressive as developments from any new HIT company working to change the system. The company just raised a nice round of funding – $15 million and […]
Among the 14 finalists at TechCrunch’s Disrupt London, three are focused on international challenges in healthcare. Along with the other startups, they are competing for $50,000 and the winner of the European Disrupt Cup. They include the Disease Diagnostic Group, which has offices in Cambridge and Cleveland and which is showcasing its Rapid Assessment of […]
The TSX Venture Exchange has a strong history of helping early-stage health and life sciences companies raise patient capital for research and development.
Download the MedCity Startup Index for September It’s easy enough to buy a pink ribbon or even to walk or run a 5K to promote breast cancer awareness. I am a fan of the Think Before You Pink campaign by the Breast Cancer Action group. These activists introduced the idea of pinkwashing – how corporations […]
This challenge is about not hacking. It is about proving that your idea will work in exchange for access to Harvard’s network. The Health Acceleration Challenge got 478 applications for a chance at that prize offered by the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Medical School. The Open Forum on Health Care Innovation is a […]
VC Marc Andreessen wrote back in 2011 that software is eating the world. At this moment, it feels like healthcare is the main course. Our August 2014 Startup Index is all the proof you need of that. Here are the numbers for HIT startups, device startups and pharma/biotech startups: 22, 2, 2. Download the full […]
Eighty-five percent of healthcare executives in a new survey said their organization’s business plan addresses the CMS penalty for 30-day readmissions, and there are a few particular strategies many of them seem to be using. HealthLeaders Media asked 106 health system CEOs and physicians at 75 hospitals how their organizations are dealing with the reimbursement […]
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
Long-term care has been slow to adopt health information technology. With a $2.1 million infusion from investors, this startup hopes to change that. Caremerge has created a suite of apps that run on PCs, tablets and smartphones to help long-term care providers, physicians and families coordinate care of seniors. With the $2.1 million they’ve just […]
Betsy Gabay saw a rotating cast of at least 14 doctors when she was hospitalized at New York Hospital Queens for almost four weeks last year for a flare-up of ulcerative colitis. But the person she credits with saving her life is a spry, persistent 75-...