The U.S. healthcare system is undergoing a disruptive transformation as it shifts toward a value-based model that makes providers more accountable to their patients and payors. As players throughout the system scramble to adjust, they should look to the financial services industry which has undergone a similar transformation over the ... Read More »
Open enrollment (now through Jan. 31) is a good time to map out the best route for meeting your medical needs in the coming year. Your first step is to make certain you have a health plan that covers your needs in 2017. What worked for you this past year ... Read More »
An Australian-first study conducted by Monash University has found that from 2003-2013 nearly five deaths per 1000 employed Australian health care professionals were caused by drugs, with a significant association between specific professions and drug type. These deaths were more likely to involve females in their mid-40s, with a mental ... Read More »
An Australian-first study conducted by Monash University has found that from 2003-2013 nearly five deaths per 1000 employed Australian health care professionals were caused by drugs, with a significant association between specific professions and drug type. These deaths were more likely to involve females in their mid-40s, with a mental ... Read More »
While the major U.S. stock indexes hit all-time highs Tuesday, health care stocks traded lower on disappointing earnings and gave back some of a post-election relief rally that had lifted the sector. “Medtronic certainly had a pretty tough quarter and [is] driving down medical devices” stocks, said Mike Bailey, director ... Read More »
Noncommunicable diseases (NCD) such as diabetes, respiratory diseases, cancer and heart diseases are taking a severe toll on public health across the WHO South-East Asia Region. Approximately 8.5 million lives, many of them premature, are lost each year due to NCDs, making them the region’s leading cause of death and ... Read More »
The slender, steel needle pierced Mary Shi’s pudgy belly. The sharp point pricked her skin and as her thumb pushed down on the syringe, cloudy insulin began to swim in her bloodstream. Shi was running out of places to inject herself: her stomach, arms and legs all bore the bruising ... Read More »
As in so many areas of business, technology is radically transforming health care and health plans. “But there’s good technology and there’s bad technology. Seamless technology and non-integrated technology. Essential, intuitive technology and bells-and-whistles technology. You get the idea,” says Kismet Toksu, president of eBenefits Solutions, an affiliate of UPMC ... Read More »
The stock of CONCEPT FUND SOLUTIONS PLC DBXT WORLD HEALTH CARE (LON:XDWH) gapped down by GBX 0.03 today and has GBX 24.59 target or 11.00% below today’s GBX 27.63 share price. The 6 months technical chart setup indicates high risk for the GBX company. The gap down was reported on ... Read More »
Imprivata, based in Lexington, Massachusetts, provides software and identity authentication tools for health care organizations to securely access and share patient information, collaborate, access medical devices and ID patients. In the first quarter, Imprivata reported a net loss of $6.7 million, the same loss reported for the first quarter of ... Read More »
Kidney failure, Obamacare, and sounds of hospital rooms all inspired Playboy Spaceman’s latest releases. Playboy Spaceman’s latest recordings veer away from the guitar solos of their past, entering the ethereal. The song “Get Me Out of Here” teases with electronics reminiscent of medical devices. Songwriter and front man George Kuhar’s vocals are hazy and ... Read More »
WASHINGTON, April 12– The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday announced Comprehensive Primary Care Plus, an attempt to encourage higher quality “cognitive” care, rather than the quantity of procedures and visits billed. The CPC+ program is the most recent move CMS has taken to transition from the fee-for-service ... Read More »
