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.

Bina Technologies is acquired by Roche

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 19, 2014-- Bina Technologies, Inc. (Bina, Redwood City, CA, USA) announced today that they have been acquired by Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY).

January 7, 2015

Stanson Health partners with Consumer Reports to deliver guidance to patients at the point of care

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Stanson Health, a population health clinical decision support (CDS) and analytics company, announced today that it has licensed health content from Consumer Reports for distribution within Stanson's next-generation CDS solution.

December 22, 2014

Nuance Receives High KLAS Rankings for Quality and Clinical Documentation Improvement Offerings

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that it has been rated #1 for regulatory reporting in the industry report, “Quality Management 2014: The Race Gets Closer,i” issued by KLAS Enterprises.BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that it has been rated #1 for regulatory reporting in the industry report, “Quality Management 2014: The Race Gets Closer,i” issued by KLAS Enterprises.

December 17, 2014

Outcomes Based Healthcare and Big Data Partnership Secure Grant for a £1m Project to Use Big Data to Predict Complications of Diabetes

 LONDON, December 9, 2014--Outcomes Based Healthcare, one of the UK's leading health outcomes advisory and technology companies and Big Data Partnership, big data service provider across all industries, today announced that they have secured a match-funded grant for a £1m project from Innovate UK, the UK's innovation agency (formerly the Technology Strategy Board) for a 'Digital Health in a Connected Hospital' funding call. 

December 9, 2014

Frost & Sullivan Recognises ClearDATA with the 2014 North American Healthcare Cloud Leadership Award

LONDON, Dec. 1, 2014-- Based on its recent analysis of the healthcare cloud market, Frost & Sullivan has recognised ClearDATA with the 2014 North American Healthcare Cloud Leadership Award.

December 2, 2014

Foundation Medicine and Flatiron Health Collaborate to Develop First-in-Class Data Platform to Accelerate Precision Medicine for Cancer

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & NEW YORK--Foundation Medicine, Inc. (NASDAQ:FMI) and Flatiron Health today announced a strategic collaboration to develop a unique, proprietary cloud-based information platform combining genomic and clinical treatment and outcomes data to significantly advance the field of precision medicine for cancer.

December 2, 2014

Editas Medicine Licenses Genome Editing Technology from Broad Institute and Harvard University

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Editas Medicine, a leading genome editing company, today announced that they have entered into an exclusive joint license agreement with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Harvard University to access intellectual property and technology related to the CRISPR/Cas9 and TALE genome editing systems. 

December 1, 2014

Orion Health Opens Development Center in Scottsdale, Arizona

Scottsdale, AZ – November 6, 2014 – Orion Health, a population health management company, today announced the opening of its new development center in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Orion Health ‘Center of Excellence’ will serve as the company’s North American research and solution center, supporting big data analytics technology development, focused on providing decision support to clinicians and patients, and solution support for clients’ population health initiatives.

November 13, 2014

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.

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