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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 hours after work completing electronic...
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 in connection...
Startup Aledade’s Ambitious Goal: Reduce Health Care Costs While Improving Care Quality
In a recent Morning Briefing, Kaiser Health News (KHN) touched on recent health policy coverage from major news organizations, including the following stories: The New York Times recently profiled Aledade, a McKesson Ventures portfolio company, and the progress it has made at two primary care practices in Kansas....
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 ensure...
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 exome sequencing, which reveals...
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 partnership, the company...
Binary Fountain and Kyruus Announce Partnership to Enhance Patient Acquisition and Engagement for Health Systems
Binary Foundation and Kyruus will be partnering to help healthcare organizations increase their online patient acquisition and the general patient experience. The partnership will integrate Kyruus’s ProviderMatch™ for Consumers, a web-based search and scheduling solution that can be embedded directly onto healthcare...
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, hospitals run by physicians—as...
Amazon Has a Secret Health Tech Team Called 1492 Working on Medical Records, Virtual Doc Visits
Amazon has started a skunkworks lab headquartered in the company’s Seattle home base to work on healthcare technology innovations. Dubbed 1492, the lab is focusing on both hardware and software projects, including pulling data from existing electronic medical records and telemedicine projects. The idea is to make...
Amazon Sees GRAIL as a Special Opportunity for its Cloud Business
In March 2017, Amazon invested in GRAIL, a health startup that is researching deep sequencing technology to discover early signs of cancer in the blood. At the time, it was unclear as to why Amazon would be interested in a company like this, given the fact that the tech giant doesn’t normally invest in startups in...
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