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How to Raise Your Employees’ Benefits IQ Before Open Enrollment
With all the paperwork required for benefits, particularly during the open enrollment season, it can be difficult to make sure employees receive everything they need. With the Bureau of Labor Statistics finding that the average cost of employee benefits is about 30% of their total compensation, it’s vital to make...
Doctors in Smart Glasses Are Using the “Pokemon Go” of Medicine
With health systems around the world under pressure due to time restraints and excessive paperwork, bedside manner is often the first to go. That’s why Augmedix’s Google Glass transcription service is so vital to the healthcare industry. “Augmedix allows doctors to focus on what matters the most: patient care,” says...
Aledade Tech is Helping Solo Practitioners Stay Independent Amid Value-Based Shift
With healthcare moving to value-based care models, smaller independent physicians need new ways to keep track of data. That's why Shawn Purifoy, MD, who owns the Malvern Family Medical Clinic in Malvern, Arkansas, has taken to using the Aledade Arkansas ACO. According to Purifoy, the ACO partners with primary care...
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 right...
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, an immunotherapy program...
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...
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