Economics

This channel highlights factors that impact hospital and healthcare economics and revenue. This includes news on healthcare policies, reimbursement, marketing, business plans, mergers and acquisitions, supply chain, salaries, staffing, and the implementation of a cost-effective environment for patients and providers.

Google plans to use artificial intelligence to detect eye diseases

Google is planning to teach a computer to detect certain kinds of eye diseases, including diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration. 

CHIME applauds CMS recommendation for 90-day reporting period

After the recommendation of the 90-day reporting period by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), CHIME has offered its support of the decision.

“Zapping” the cancer away

Soon, physicians might be able to help patients “zap the cancer away” with the development of the effect electric fields have on cancer cells.

New screening test for biomarkers are able to determine recurrence of colon cancer at better rates

Researchers from Ludwig have found a way to use biomarkers in blood to determine the rate of reoccurrence for colon cancer and the efficacy of chemotherapy following surgery. 

athenahealth wants to be the Amazon of healthcare

We live in the age of technology where even babies use tablets. But it seems odd that, while anyone can use technology, doctors can be confounded by the internet. athenahealth hopes to change that by modeling its own “information problem” solution after top technology companies like Amazon.

Paper strips can now detect malaria and cancer

Paper strips have come a long way from just determining how much chlorine is in your pool, they can now detect cancer and malaria from just one drop of blood.

Doctors develop computer simulation for spleen's filtering process

Researchers have created a new computer model that is able to show how the tiny slits in the spleen filter diseased or misshapen red blood cells from re-entering the bloodstream. 

3-D printed cartilage may present new path toward joint rejuvenation

A research team at Penn State has developed a 3-D bioprinting process that uses strands of cow cartilage to create cartilage patches for worn out joints. 

Around the web

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.