Teladoc acquires Best Doctors in $440M deal to boost international clout
Revenue for the second opinion service Best Doctors added up to $92 million last year and is projected to be $100 million this year.
Revenue for the second opinion service Best Doctors added up to $92 million last year and is projected to be $100 million this year.
It's possible to develop optimization algorithms that can figure out the perfect configuration for the volume and duration of healthcare appointments for each specific day.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Last year, Heal raised back to back Series A and B rounds to support the company's expansion.
SERMO, a physician social network, has unveiled its "Drug Ratings" tool, which allows doctors to research, rate and share their experiences with the accessibility of specific drugs.
Cofounders Dr. Tom Delbanco and Jan Walker received the Data Liberator award at Health Datapalooza this week. The award highlights people, organizations and initiatives improving data transparency and access in healthcare.
"We need our physicians to be patient facing, not computer facing," he said in a keynote speech delivered at the Health Datapalooza conference. "We simply have to do a better job of reducing the burden on healthcare providers."
In what may be a sign of the seedier side of digital health, some telemedicine customers are showing their doctors way too much skin.
This is part of a series of articles on how providers can add stability and improve performance in their operations.
What are the advantages of a conversational user interface over the interfaces we’ve used for decades?
Early stage investor Builders VC led a $6.5 million financing round.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Dr Christine Stock also outlined a wish list of clinical decision support tools for mobile devices and electronic medical records.
In a talk at SXSW in Austin this week on the future of AI, Microsoft Research Technical Fellow and Managing Director Eric Horvitz, highlighted a few examples of how AI can be used to learn from adverse events and prevent them.
Physicians planning to avoid participating in MIPS and ignore MACRA may find that the effort required to avoid the penalty is small compared with the energy needed to make up the lost income.
To get closer to the dream of personalized obesity treatments, we need more data to piece together which combinations of solutions work for which types of people.
There are many factors that may have contributed to the ability of primary care providers to absorb more patients.