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.

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Accenture encourages developing technology through HealthTech Innovation Challenge

Accenture has launched the Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge to encourage technology startups to tackle big issues in healthcare.

SONIFI Health to install patient engagement system in California medical center

Keeping patients educated and engaged in their own care has proven to lower admission rates and improve patient satisfaction. SONIFI Health has announced a partnership with St. Mary Medical Center to implement its Interactive Television Services in every patient room within the Apple Valley, California, medical center.

Twine takes interactive approach to managing chronic conditions

As a country that spends more than $3 trillion every year on healthcare, the U.S. continues to see overall spending increase, in part because chronic diseases become more and more prevalent. Twine Health has created a methodology that helps patients control these long-lasting conditions.

3M acquires Semfinder to help with rollout of EMR platforms

As conglomerate manufacturing company 3M continues to build up its healthcare records and population analytics platforms, it has acquired Semfinder, a Switzerland-based medical coding technology company.

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Australian hearing device emphasizes discreet aid

A new, more discrete hearing aid by Australia-based Cochlear Limited will be hitting the market this fall.

Gelesis appoints two new executives, gears up for product launch

Biotechnology company Gelesis named a new CEO and vice president of medical affairs as it prepares to launch Gelesis100, the company’s first weight loss pill.

Health IT improves patient care in nursing homes but is hampered by lack of funding

Researchers from the University of Missouri explored the importance of health information technology in the hope of raising awareness for seniors in nursing homes.

Technology may offer tools to control growing opioid addiction

With the opioid addiction epidemic only getting worse, researchers and developers are working together fight misuse with medical technology. So has using medical technology helped at least slow the rise in opioid addiction?

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These health systems have the biggest digital health portfolios

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.

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Toylike robot pleases counseling clients where humanoid counterpart struggles to connect

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.

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Medsender, Patagonia Health team up to aid public health efforts against COVID-19

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.