A 58-year-old Maryland woman breaks her ankle, develops a blood clot and, unable to find a doctor to monitor her blood-thinning drug, winds up in an emergency room 30 times in six months. A 55-year-old Mississippi man with severe hypertension and kidne...
HUMBLE, Texas -- When Lisa Boncler gashed the side of her head on the gate to her front yard, she immediately called her neighbor for a ride to the emergency room. Toby Hamilton, CEO of Emerus, which runs freestanding ERs in Texas, stands between hi...
Zelis CEO Amanda Eisel shares her perspective on how the company is solving the problems of a fragmented health financial system to benefit all.
If OpenTable can save people the time and hassle of waiting at a busy restaurant, why can’t an online check-in system do the same for patients visiting an overcrowded emergency department? Stacie Pawlicki, the vice president of marketing for Nashville digital health startup InQuicker, said it actually can: The 150 hospitals that use the company’s […]
Insightful new healthcare research from the RAND Corp. emphasizes the growing influence on healthcare spending based on decisions made by the 4 percent of U.S. physicians who work in emergency rooms. Commissioned by the Emergency Medicine Action Fund, the new analysis proposes that emergency physicians serve as the major decision makers for nearly half of […]