Doc.ai, a Palo Alto-based startup, has come out of stealth mode and launched its new platform. Through it, patients can input their data and receive suggestions from an AI-powered "doctor."
Nine out of 10 large pharma companies spend more on marketing than they do on R&D. It's a statistic often cited as a sign of industry greed, but it may be the best way to foster real innovation.
Alan Murray on improving access for medical transportation.
A Deloitte survey of U.S. healthcare consumers revealed that priorities for telemedicine and remote monitoring tend to focus on caregiving more than self care.
Collaboration, even with competitors, helps usher a drug into successful development, a new report from Deloitte released at this week's BIO convention says.
Deloitte’s Healthcare Practice today unveiled its latest offering in the EHR space with Evergreen, which it says can help reduce hospital IT costs by as much as 30 percent and improve analytics and reporting. It can do so by using what Deloitte calls a “global staffing model” and a standardized design that is easy to […]
We know the pharma industry’s in the midst of a sea change, but here’s an interesting smidgen of info: The larger companies that just focus in on a few therapeutic areas tend to deliver higher returns, a new Deloitte report says here: “Company size matters,” the report says, because “the larger the company, by revenue or […]
CEO and neuroscientist Dr. Iftach Dolev on how the new device can bring a powerful tool to psychiatrists and neurologists alike.
Deloitte recently released its 2014 Technology Fast 500 Rankings, and biotech companies ranked third-quickest in growth following software and internet firms. The biotech industry, over all, grew 940 percent this year – the lowest it’s been, actually, in the past decade. Last year, for instance, the it grew 2,723 percent, in 2012 it was 3,734 – the […]
Digital health incubator Rock Health is investing in eight new startups and teaming up with three new corporate entities – Blue Shield of California, Deloitte and global healthcare firm Abbott. The new startups being incubated span the healthcare spectrum, from HIPAA compliance to life sciences and biotech. Among them: — Accountable, an online platform that seeks […]
MedCity News has partnered with BioCrossroads to provide coverage focused on Indiana’s next generation of growth and innovation in life sciences. The Regenstrief Institute and its network of hospitals and providers across Indiana have teamed up with ConvergeHEALTH, an effort spearheaded by Deloitte that aims to offer comprehensive data sharing among key organizations. The informatics […]
Number-wise, hospital mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. dipped last year after reaching decade-high levels in 2012. But analysts don’t think the appetite for growth via M&A is dying down just yet. Regulatory changes and pressure from public and private insurers are driving new healthcare business models that aren’t going away. Simon Gisby, the managing […]
Greenway Health blends smart technology with human expertise to elevate revenue cycle.
By now, you’ve heard the medical device industry landscape is shifting. The term “innovation” needs new life breathed into it in the life sciences, major companies are turning over their business models to take a larger bite of the care continuum, value takes precedence over volume in an ACO-ACA world, around which M&A is whirling. […]
In Deloitte’s weekly healthcare industry insights this week, Dr. Harry Greenspun, a senior adviser at Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, poses an important, lingering question about transparency: What are the implications of only having some transparency in healthcare? Companies like PokitDok, Change Healthcare and Castlight Health have been winning over investors with their solutions for […]
With the problems associated with the portal for the Obamacare health insurance exchange HealthCare.gov , 106,000 people managed to enroll at last count. People are also signing up for plans through the state exchanges and state partnership exchanges around the country. Deloitte’s Center for Health Solutions has produced a useful, state-by-state breakdown aggregating those numbers […]
More than a dozen medical device, pharmaceutical and diagnostics companies made it to the top 100 of this year’s Deloitte’s Fast 500 Ranking. Each year, Deloitte compiles the list that highlights 500 of the fastest-growing tech companies in the U.S., as determined by revenue growth as submitted by the company. That means that most of […]
Big data may be about to overwhelm the healthcare system. A little healthcare business intelligence tip: Data by itself won’t drive value and outcomes. Smart healthcare analytics will. In Deloitte’s DBrief, “Big Data Revolution: Unlocking Healthcare Analytics,” healthcare industry experts talked about the opportunities and barriers for industries across the care continuum to harness data, […]