To position the healthcare system for long-term success, traditional healthcare providers must tap into new disruptive forces to create navigable, discoverable, accessible, and personalized experiences for patients who now expect a new consumer-centered model of care.
Prioritizing convenience while also maintaining valuable relationships between patients and healthcare teams is at the heart of the digital transformation of healthcare, and will help convert the trend of virtual care into something altogether more sophisticated: “distributed care,” where everything can be done digitally — and much of it at home.
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
Research by Accenture reveal the extent to which millennials and Gen Z feel dissatisfied with the current healthcare industry in the United States and how that can change.
Heal's acquisition of Doctors on Call underscores the consumerization trend in healthcare as consumers demand more convenience from their healthcare experiences.
The new proposed rules also include enforcement tools for bad actors including monitoring, auditing, corrective action plans and monetary penalties of $300 a day.
A strategic approach to patient-centered revenue cycle technology should be enabled by predictive analytics and machine learning to help customize the payment experience, refine communication messages, and give proper feedback to continually improve back-end processes.
3D medical animation services have emerged as a groundbreaking tool in the healthcare industry, revolutionizing the way medical concepts are taught, understood, and marketed.
Venture capital firm Health Velocity Capital, which is led by a trio of veteran investors, has closed its initial oversubscribed fund with $185 million in committed capital.
Providers can and should use the latest web and mobile cost estimator tools – offering them upfront, before and while people book appointments. Here are three tips to achieve price transparency.
The president of UPMC's venture arm and it's innovation chief were among panelists explaining the benefits of having a hospital as an investor while asking for help from startups to transform the customer experience in healthcare.
Changes in the way healthcare is delivered, paid for and analyzed through big data, as well as the slow emergence of empowered patients, are creating a "modern-day gold rush," according to three strategic consultants at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
The World Economic Forum has identified six opportunities for transforming healthcare, and explains them in a series of video interviews with experts on each subject.
Former Apple and PepsiCo CEO John Sculley envisions a breakthrough for digital health that will be on the scale of what the personal computer did in decades past. Speaking at the Digital Health Live conference in Dubai last week, Sculley, who now is a venture capitalist with stakes in several healthcare startups, said that consumers will lead the […]
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 […]
Here is how healthcare used to work. Every year your employer’s HR representative called a meeting to let you know what your limited options were for coverage this year based on your circumstances. If you got married or had a child in the previous year, Plan A is probably best for you. If you have […]
Over the course of three days at the Mayo Clinic‘s annual Transform conference, featuring scores of healthcare’s top names, several themes stood out. Here’s what I gather were the main points. 1. Economic factors and barriers are just as important in determining health outcomes for the population as a whole. It stands to reason – […]