POSTS TAGGED AS healthcare

Healthcare Data Rising at 48%/yr. So What?

Internet of Things
Science depends on data, and there’s an avalanche of it. But, as this piece reports, 90% of healthcare [MORE]

A.I.’s Areas of Greatest Impact in Healthcare

Artificial Intelligence
Robot-assisted surgery, virtual nursing assistance, administrative workflow management, fraud detection, dosage error reduction, connected machines, clinical trial patient identification, [MORE]

Slower Pace of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Artificial Intelligence
Why hasn’t healthcare benefited much, so far, from artificial intelligence? This piece argues that the limiting factor is the [MORE]

Issues for the “Hospital-at-Home”

Hospital at Home Model
There is a deficiency in American healthcare that is hiding in plain sight. It is the deterioration [MORE]

Geisinger’s Refund Policy

Refund
Tagline’s usual beat is medicine’s science and technology, which this story doesn’t address. Rather it speaks to the art of [MORE]

Important Indicators of Healthcare Businesses

Population Health
While Tagline mainly looks for science and technology news, economic trends in the healthcare sector can advance, retard, cushion [MORE]

Immunotherapy for ALL

Healthy Human T Cell
At the beginning of the 20th century, British physician Sir Almoth Wright predicted that the doctor of [MORE]

Issues and Insurers

Health Insurance
Becker’s Hospital Review is a useful source for healthcare business news. Moreover, it really excels at “list making”—i.e. stating [MORE]

Perspective on Data-Driven Healthcare

Data Driven Healthcare
Hippocrates would have understood the concept of “data-driven healthcare, but neither he nor most people before the last [MORE]

Useful Numbers: Average In-Patient Daily Cost by State

Healthcare Dollars
This listing of average in-patient daily costs (not charges) by state and hospital type may be useful for innovation [MORE]

Hospitals’ Price to Cost Ratio

The Institute for Health & Socio-Economic Policy has listed the 100 hospitals in the US with the highest price [MORE]

Kaiser’s Model Hospital at Garfield Innovation Center

Kaiser Permanente Innovation Center
In a former 37,000 sq. ft. warehouse, Kaiser Permanente created its Garfield Innovation Center (San Leandro, [MORE]

A Digital Health Accelerator

Healthcare-oriented investors in Spartanburg, SC are creating a digital health accelerator in a location called “The Iron Yard.”  Proponents [MORE]

Nursing with Robots

Don’t call nurses Luddites, according to this piece: “More than half of healthcare providers interviewed said that if they [MORE]