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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Abbotts Alinity aims to make comprehensive diagnostics systems

Many diagnostic testing machines are only compatible with products of the same brand, but Abbott hopes to change that with the introduction of its new family of Alinity products.

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Study: Seniors slow on the uptake for technology but rates of use increase

Most young people have had to help parents or grandparents get a hold on new technology, including that old VCR or a new iPhone. In a study published by JAMA, a team of researchers led by David M. Levine, MD, MA, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, measured the rate at which seniors use digital technology in their healthcare.

Immunotherapy methods effective in fighting cancer

Although the use of immunotherapy to treat cancer was once a far-fetched idea, the method has been gaining more traction lately. 

Study: Does the implementation of EHRs affect patient outcome?

Physicians and healthcare providers experience frustrations associated with implementing EHRs, but does installing this technology affect patients care? Almost surprisingly, it does not.

MedEx, Rite Aid partner to lower hospital readmission rates by 15%

Readmission rates among patients can rise when patient aren’t well informed about their care. In an effort to minimize readmissions, Patient Portal Technologies partnered with Rite Aid pharmacy to drop readmission rates by 15 percent. 

Editorial: Critically evaluate technology's impact on healthcare

We live in a society that relies on technology more with each passing day—and our healthcare system is no different. Charts are in the cloud and doctors are just a click away, but is all this technology, meant to improve care, actually taking us away from what true healthcare is about?

Using speech to diagnose Alzheimer’s

Diagnosis and dectect of Alzheimer’s disease has long been problematic. Now, a new technology may use an individual's speech patterns to detect and monitor cognitive disorders, including Alzheimer’s.

Polarized light scanner detects Alzheimer’s before symptoms appear

The link between amyloid proteins and Alzheimer's disease is well established. Unfortunately, these structures are often only detectable once the disease has progressed to a relatively late stage. But researchers are developing a new diagnostic tool that may be capable detecting Alzheimer's in its earliest stages. 
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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.