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Kyruus CEO Shares Perspective on Digital Health in Massachusetts

Kyruus CEO Graham Gardner likens Kyruus's efforts to change healthcare to the way Oakland A's manager Billy Bean redefined baseball by focusing on the inherent value of his players in the book Moneyball. The KyruusOne software platform, according to Gardner, helps health systems connect patients with "the...

How Science is Unlocking the Cancer Medicines of the Future

In the UK, more than 350,000 new cases of cancer were diagnosed in 2014, and there were 163,444 deaths from cancer. Nonetheless, the outlook for cancer patients is looking better, thanks to major advances in drug development, genomics, and immunotherapy. One example is CAR-T cell therapies,...

Doctors Live-Streaming Patient Exams to Note-Takers via Google Glass

A 2016 study in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that physicians spent 37 percent of their time on a computer during exams. This can frustrate patients because they don’t think they’re getting the doctor’s full attention. Not only that, but physicians spend one to two...

A Start-Up Suggests a Fix to the Health Care Morass

Despite the drama in Washington, D.C. over the Affordable Care Act and its repeal or replacement, investors are still seeing a big future in the expansion of healthcare and the creation of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) in Medicare. Perhaps the most interesting and groundbreaking company created...

Swisslog Healthcare Invests in PipelineRx to Establish Strategic Partnership

Swisslog Healthcare has announced that it will be investing significantly in PipelineRx. The two companies will be using their new partnership to improve hospital workflow efficiency and to provide patients with a better experience. The two companies will be improving digitization options for their clients to...

Genomic Medicine Has Entered the Building

As the promises of genomics are starting to come to fruition, hospitals need to start preparing for the changes genomics will bring to health care. Thousands of Americans are being treated, or are changing their treatments, based on information from genome testing. The cost of whole...

Aledade to Create Physician-Led ACO in New Jersey

Bethesda, Maryland-based Aledade, a value-based care network with 15 accountable care organizations (ACOs), is planning to form a primary care physician-led ACO in New Jersey in January 2018. Aledade will collaborate with the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians for the ACO. As part of the...

Healthcare is Looking to the Tech World for Recruitment

It's no surprise that the healthcare sector is full of executives with health-related backgrounds. A 2011 study of CEOs at the best hospitals in the US found that most CEOs specialized in cardiovascular care, cancer, and digestive disorders. And according to the Harvard Business Review,...