Every product team creating for the healthcare space needs to have a clinical expert deeply embedded in their organization to drive use case definitions, articulate pain points, define value, inform implementation, and perhaps most importantly, uncover problems or risks ahead of build. In a world where health tech is often trying to build the airplane while flying it, I hope there’s a doctor on that plane.
To create the Golden Age of Healthcare Delivery, we need to understand healthcare workers’ pain points, personalize systems, and make information systems work for them, to ensure that the Golden Age of Medicine is fully realized for all in every community.
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
Providers and payers will be able to use Uber Health to deliver healthy groceries and over-the-counter items to patients who need them. They'll be able to do this on the same platform they use to request non-emergency medical transportation and prescription delivery.
Listen in as our panel discusses how to achieve the right balance to combine the importance of technology while providing human touch to healthcare.
Covid-19 has renewed interest in diagnostics and a way to deliver care at home. Learn from companies and experts as they address the future of these two developments.
As healthcare continues its transformation in today’s digital world, telehealth plays a crucial role. Telemedicine leaders share their insights.
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
Meet the entrepreneurs, companies and ideas innovating healthcare services and products for the 50+ market.
Mount Sinai Health System has recognized that there is a "staggering disconnect" between the health system and chronically ill patients, and is taking steps to overhaul its care delivery.
The five-phase plan, said to be suitable for all clinicians, appears in the October issue of the Journal of Nursing Administration.
The staid Journal of the American Medical Association is getting into the field of healthcare innovation. JAMA won't be bankrolling startups or conducting medical research, but rather will spend 2016 highlighting innovations specifically in healthcare delivery.
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.
Everyone knows that Obamacare’s intention is to change the care delivery model from fee-for-service to fee-for-quality. The biggest question for me is how long it takes for this transition to take place. Hospitals are at the epicenter for care delivery in this country (whether they should or shouldn’t be is a debate for another time). […]
Did you get more than a few minutes with your doctor at your last visit? Probably not. Why not? Not enough time. The primary care physician (PCP) is the most broadly yet deeply focused care giver and as such is the backbone of the healthcare system. But to do this work effectively requires time – […]
An important read from The Atlantic explains why doctors should fight to avoid the changes to their profession that lawyers are currently enduring. With each passing year, Big Med is following Big Law. Physicians, medical schools, and hospitals all proudly trumpet their standing in national rankings. Efforts to preserve and augment revenue streams produce ...
There will be some very disruptive and some transformational changes in the way health care is delivered, not as a result of reform, but as a result of the drivers of change described previously. They included an aging population, an obese society, shortages of doctors, and emerging consumerism, among others. I interviewed in depth about […]
Two healthcare startups are living proof that sometimes the government really is here to help. Two companies that have already received grants from the National Space Biomedical Research Institute Industry Forum money were at an event yesterday in Louisville to promote a new funding program. SMARTCAP ACCEL is replacing the original fund to help companies […]