The number of children and adolescents in need of mental health services has been soaring in recent years, but many families are still spending months on end waiting to access care. Meanwhile, young people…
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Yet another retailer is making moves in healthcare. This time it’s Costco, which announced Monday that it is partnering with virtual health marketplace Sesame to provide Costco members with discount pricing for medical care….
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The value-based care movement has been around for decades, but it’s still struggling to reach real scale.
In order to increase the scale of at-risk models, providers and payers need to come together and collaborate…
Perspectives on the digital therapeutics industry tend to reveal the bias of the prognosticator as a glass-half-full optimist or glass-half-empty pessimist. Not enough clinical data vs. inadequate payer reimbursement. Many of the apps produced…
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Zocdoc launched a new suite of tools on Tuesday — one that takes aim at the solutions sold by Phreesia, NexHealth and Solutionreach.
The product suite, called Zocdoc Practice Solutions, includes tools to streamline the…
Eating disorders often start at a younger age, but they don’t solely affect this population. Recognizing this, virtual eating disorder support company Equip announced Tuesday that it is now treating adults as well as…
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If hospitals want to win in the game of digital transformation, they have to start thinking a bit more like Netflix and Amazon, according to Sara Vaezy, Providence’s chief strategy and digital officer.
“In every…
From left to right: Suchi Saria, CEO of Bayesian Health and machine learning researcher at Johns Hopkins, and Sam Glick, global leader of health and life sciences at Oliver Wyman
For more than a decade,…
As a gastroenterologist, Dr. Austin Chiang has witnessed plenty of patients get admitted to the hospital after taking unvetted medical advice they found on the Internet, he said Wednesday during an interview at Oliver…
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The mental health care system is broken.
One in five people has a mental health condition, but it’s harder than ever to find effective care. 163 million Americans live in a mental health professional shortage…
