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.

Truven Health Analytics and MEDITECH Expand Collaboration to Include Integrated Consumer Health Education Solution

ANN ARBOR, Mich.--Truven Health Analytics™ today announced an expansion of its long term strategic collaboration with MEDITECH, provider of Health Information® Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, to include additional products from its Micromedex® Patient Connect Suite. 

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Under Armour buys MyFitnessPal, Endomondo for $560 million

Sports apparel maker Under Armour is continuing its push into the quantification of fitness and health with the acquisition of fitness apps MyFitnessPal for $475 million and Endomondo for $85 million.

Isabel Healthcare Announces AffiniPartner Agreement with American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA)

Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 03, 2015 -- Isabel Healthcare announced today an agreement with the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) to offer the Isabel diagnosis decision support tool to its physician assistant (PA) members through their Affinity Partner member benefits program.

American Society of Clinical Oncology begins development of CancerLinQ

American Society of Clinical Oncology is working to develop a clinical decision support and analytics tool to improve delivery of care to patients with cancer.

U. of Penn study: Twitter can predict heart disease rates

Twitter is more than just a social media engine; it also can serve as a dashboard indicator of a community’s psychological well-being and can predict rates of heart disease, according to a University of Pennsylvania study published in Psychological Science.

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Indiana unveils website to compare hospital pricing and quality

The Indiana Hospital Association has launched a website that allows consumers to browse charges and quality ratings for hospitals in the state. 

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Hospital discharge summaries affect readmissions, quality of care

The successful transmission of discharge summaries from a hospital to a patient’s doctor is fundamental to ensure quality of care and reduce readmissions, according to a pair of studies published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

Wearables help predict spine surgery recovery time

Researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, University of California, San Francisco and New York University are analyzing activity data from wearables to predict recovery time of spine surgery patients.

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.