POSTS TAGGED AS healthcare

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]

“Exponential Technologies” in Healthcare

Daniel Kraft, MD
Daniel Kraft M. D. is the executive director of “FutureMed” at Singularity University in Silicon Valley, CA.  [MORE]

mHealth and Wireless Medical Technology Conference

Monday, April 29 to Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Washington Plaza Hotel, Washington, DC
Conference Description
The potential of mHealth and wireless medical technology [MORE]

Innovations in Connected Health: In Search of the Tricorder

Health care diagnostic companies have yet to embrace the universe of ubiquitous wireless connectivity. There are a [MORE]

Robotic Inventory Control

Iventory-Taking Robot in Hoodie
So far, hospitals have only begun to glimpse the advantages of real time location systems and [MORE]