A great article from Time Magazine this week - highlights Until we end COVID-19 transmission across the planet, we are...
Business, Marketing & Technology Articles
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Report 88% of hospital executives feel vulnerable to non-hospital competitors
In an industry filled with competitors the likes of Optum, CVS Health and Amazon, leaders of health organizations are...
The largest Medicare Advantage insurers in each state
Via - - Becker's Hospital Review Here are the largest Medicare Advantage plans by number of covered lives in each...
Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Trends report spotlights health care digitization – ZDNet
Driven by consumer demand, the health care sector in the US is steadily digitizing, according to Mary Meeker's annual...
10 biggest health plans by number of members – Becker’s Hospital Review
Here are the 10 largest commercial, Medigap, Medicare Advantage and Medicaid health plans by number of covered lives,...
This Health Insurance Giant Wants to Pay for Your Apple Watch
Time Magazine reports In a partnership with Apple, Aetna announced Tuesday a new app and wellness program that will...
Hospital Mergers Get Even Bigger As Seller Size Hits $400M
Full details in this new report. The trend comes as medical care providers look to grab scale to compete with national...
U.S. Opioid Crisis Is Top Health Story of 2018
The scourge of opioid addiction and related deaths cut through American society again in 2018, capturing headlines and...
Hospitals Spend 64% More on Advertising After a Data Breach
Hospitals spend 64 percent more annually on advertising after a breach over the following two years, according to a...
Critical shortage of cardiothoracic surgeons, must train more surgeons now to meet future needs
My father had cardiac surgery at the Cleveland Clinic this summer, truly an amazing experience It got me thinking...
CMS 2018 Opioids Roadmap
Although progress has been made in efforts to combat the opioid epidemic, the latest data from the Centers for Disease...
Medicare to Require Hospitals Post Prices Online
US hospitals will have to post their standard prices online and make it easier for patients to access their electronic...
Humana Takes 40% Stake in Kindred at Home
Humana is acquiring a major stake in Kindred Healthcare’s home care division for about $800 million in the latest move...
Telehealth and Establishing HIPPA compliant Messaging Services
Telehealth has grown in popularity with the growing reliability of both video chat and instant internet chat options,...
Nursing crisis strains U.S. hospitals
A shortage of nurses at US hospitals hit West Virginia’s Charleston Area Medical Center at the worst possible time The...
Is the U.S. Ready for a Single-Payer Health Care System?
Avoiding political perspectives - I felt this was a rather thoughtful and insightful report by the Harvard Business...
Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we’ve done… | Bill and Melinda Gates
This is a great interview - what amazing perspective to be able to focus on issues at this level......
Employers Offer More Telemedicine Benefits
Telemedicine is no longer be a novelty, with three in five large US employers now providing cost-saving digital...
81 Percent of Healthcare CIOs Cite Data Security as Top Priority
CIOs are frequently tasked look for tools and technologies to improve workflows 81% of CIOs surveyed said that...
This is Why You Need a Flu Shot
If you’ve been debating whether to get a flu shot, you should watch this beautifully terrifying 3 minute animation by...
The 10 fastest-growing healthcare companies on the Inc. 5000
According to the annual Inc 5000 list, here are the top 10 rapid-growth healthcare companies thats have grown at...
Causes of Death – Interactive Data
There are many ways to die and The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention classifies the ways into 113 causes,...
Laptop Theft May Have Exposed PHI of 400,000 California Inmates
The theft of a non-encrypted laptop belonging to a staff member of California Correctional Health Care Services may...
The 10 best jobs in U.S. shows health care and tech still rule
Here's the top 25 jobs with salaries and number of openings The rankings are based on three factors: earning...