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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Spreemo names new leadership as it continues executive-level expansion

Healthcare analytics company Spreemo has continued its executive-level this week, only a week after naming a new president and COO.

ProclaRx names Doug Martin COO

Biotechnology company ProclaRx named a new chief operation officer today as it switches up its executive team.

Sasmar Pharmaceuticals acquires Chicago-based Aquatrove

Sasmar Pharmaceuticals, a Belgium-based pharmaceutical manufacturer, has acquired Aquatrove Biosciences this week as it continues to expand its portfolio of biotechnology companies that will help improve its product pipeline.

Midwest healthcare startups raise more than $1 billion in first half of 2016

Midwest healthcare startups are booming so far this year, according to a new report from Cleveland-based BioEnterprise.

Texas Medical Center Innovation Institute kicks off third accelerator program

More than 11 medical device startups will head to Texas for the third installment of TMCx, an accelerator program that helps startups partner with industry experts that can help turn entrepreneur’s device concepts into reality.

Doctors dish out $32,000 a year for heath IT

Entering the digital age offers plenty of potential for the healthcare industry like more access to care and less waiting time. But with the pros comes the con—and the implementation of health IT costs doctors more than $32,000 per year, according to Forbes.

The challenge of integrating healthcare's physical network with its digital one

The physical network of healthcare—hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, etc.—can be integrated with the digital network of EHRs and interoperability platforms to improve care and reduce costs.

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Studies: Patient monitoring can save $15 billion a year

Patient monitoring systems have proven to provide a better quality of care to patents, but how much are these technologies saving in both time and money?

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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.