By Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News | May 6, 2019 More and more health systems are taking steps to "fully unleash nurse innovators at the leadership level," a new report shows, tapping their specialized expertise for technology deployment, process improvement, patient experience and more. More and more hospitals and health [...]
By Bill Siwicki | May 25, 2018 Hospitals are shaping always-on consumer experiences with cutting-edge digital health tools as well as scheduling apps, workflow tools and more ways to access care. Patient engagement and user experience is a goal high on the priority list for many hospitals and health systems [...]
By Stephanie Baum | MedCity News, April 19, 2018 Cross-industry deals and ventures are all the rage in the healthcare industry at the moment whether its retail and insurance through the proposed CVS Health and Aetna deal, pharma and health IT via Roche’s acquisition of oncology analytics business Flatiron Health, [...]
By Bertlalan Mesko, The Medical Futurist | April 2018 Patients living in rural, suburban or urban areas with poor infrastructure often don’t have the proper means to get to the doctor’s appointment on time. In extreme cases, they could even wait for emergency situations so they can call an ambulance [...]
By Jeff Byers | April 12, 2018 Vertical integration is all the rage in healthcare these days, with Aetna, Cigna and Humana making notable plays. If the proposed CVS-Aetna, Cigna-Express Scripts and Humana-Kindred deals are cleared by regulators, the tie-ups will have to immediately face UnitedHealth Group's Optum, which has been ahead of [...]
