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The hospitality industry as a model for healthcare often doesn’t ring true
The oft-repeated observation that healthcare should be more like the hospitality industry doesn’t always ring true. Here;’s why.
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How doctors will work with bots to reduce the barriers between doctors and...
By combining, or blending, human expert messaging with automated responses we improve efficiency without sacrificing quality.
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What should providers look for when choosing patient engagement technology?
Since any new system will affect clinical workflow, it is crucial that new tools either stand alone or integrate with EHR as seamlessly as possible.
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Survey: An increasing number of physicians would support a single payer system
A long-term trend away from physicians owning their practices may be another reason that single payer is winning some over. Last year was the first in which fewer than half of practicing physicians...
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As health systems acquire physician practices, what’s the impact on...
As large hospital systems like Sutter Health, Stanford Medicine and UCSF Medical Center gobble up doctor practices, they gain market muscle that pushes costs upward. But how are those higher costs...
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For machine learning to be adopted in healthcare, know its limitations
Because of the inherent risks, physicians and other clinicians need to understand why and how machine learning solutions arrive at their conclusions.
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Practice management IT startup provides a way to preserve data from patients’...
For some physician practices, urgent after-hours calls are commonplace. But Henry Kane, with a background in medical malpractice, was familiar with the data preservation pitfalls they can create....
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JAMA study shows how surgeons successfully reduced prescribed opioids
The Michigan team is pushing its new prescribing guidelines online, in hopes of encouraging other hospitals to adopt similar practices.
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A doctor’s illness spurred her to start program to improve the patient...
In the past five years, Dr. Rana Awdish and three colleagues have developed a program to improve empathy and communication with patients, called Clear Conversations.
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How should physicians talk to patients about dying?
The guide is being rolled out at Mass. General, Baylor Scott & White Health in Texas, Lowell General Hospital in Massachusetts, the University of Pennsylvania and hospitals in 34 foreign countries,...
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This healthcare startup positions itself at intersection of social networks...
Voro offers a different approach to physician reviews, but will the New York-based business resonate with users?
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Nomad Health closes $12M Series B to add more states to its healthcare...
Polaris Partners led the Series B, which also included existing investors First Round Capital, RRE Ventures, and .406 Ventures.
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Why physicians can’t be Luddites as healthcare changes
Input from physicians ensures that good actors are leading the healthcare revolution as the person best equipped to chart the course through the data-deluged wilderness of complicated information,...
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How Nuance’s AI-powered virtual assistant aims to assist the care team
The Massachusetts company’s Dragon Medical Virtual Assistant is focused on clinical documentation and translating a clinician’s speech into information that goes into the EHR.
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How can providers align schedules with patients to keep them returning for...
A key strategy for catering to consumerized patient expectations is creating engagements that are proactive, convenient, and make it as easy as possible for the patient to return for continued care.
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First half of 2018 sees 18.7M pills and $164M lost due to drug diversion
These numbers compare to 2017, when 20.9 million pills and $301.1 million were lost because of drug diversion, according to an analysis by data analytics company Protenus.
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Here’s why CMS’s move to reimburse for virtual care and remote patient...
The new rule includes additional amendments designed to accelerate the use of virtual check-ins and Remote Patient Monitoring in the market. Here’s a look at why the rule is good but not great.
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Physician entrepreneur seeks to redefine physician and patient engagement...
Physician entrepreneur Karthik Koduru, an oncologist, will highlight how his businesses, PulsedIn and OncoPower, are supporting patient engagement at the MedCity ENGAGE conference Nov 6-7 in San Diego.
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Healthcare apparel startup Jaanuu lands $15M in funding
Co-founded by Neela Sethi Young, a physician, and her brother Shaan Sethi, a former private equity investor, the company offers scrubs and other medical workwear for men and women.
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How artificial intelligence will shape the physician toolkit in 2019
As we consider AI’s expansion across the entire healthcare industry, here are some specific areas where I believe artificial intelligence will make the most impact in 2019, as it continues to shape the...
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