According to Accenture analysis, when combined, key clinical health AI applications can potentially create $150 billion in annual savings for the United States healthcare economy by 2026. [READ FULL REPORT]
By LAURA LANDRO | June 25, 2017 Technology is offering a new fix for one of the most confounding health-care challenges: getting patients with chronic disease to take better care of themselves. About half of all adults suffer from one or more chronic diseases, which account for seven of 10 deaths and 86% of U.S. [...]
By STEPHANIE BAUM | June 22, 2017 A new report from Stanford Medicine looking at the present and future of digital health draws some interesting conclusions on the impact virtual visits, wearables and predictive analytics will have on how healthcare is delivered in the future. Naturally, there are a good few challenges that stand in [...]
JUNE 15, 2017 9:10 PM | CHRISTOPHER GERGEN AND STEPHEN MARTIN It has been two years since five communities across North Carolina embarked on InnovateNC, an effort to accelerate new business starts and small business growth (particularly within disconnected neighborhoods) through a multi-city learning collaborative. Recently, leaders from Wilmington/Carolina Coast, Wilson, Pembroke, Greensboro and [...]
By ERIK BIRKENEDER AND DANIEL ELIAV | Jun 16, 2017 There is a gold rush of companies, entrepreneurs, and providers piling into digital health, but many have and will crash before they even get off the runway, mostly because of avoidable legal missteps. According to a report by Rock Health, while investment in digital health [...]
By Laura Baverman @laurabaverman Reporting on venture capital raises and other federal filings from a UNC-Chapel Hill School of Journalism news service Each week, we’ll round up startup news from the UNC journalism students behind North Carolina Business News Wire. To read all of the students’ work covering public and private companies around the [...]
