by Keith Kuhn | Mar 3, 2015 | Industry
Just ahead of the closing enrollment period for Obamacare, tech behemoth Salesforce released a report titled “The State of the Connected Patient 2015,” detailing the potentially huge shift in how patients interact with their providers, particularly younger patients,...
by Keith Kuhn | Mar 2, 2015 | Industry
Just a couple of months after it acquired Emerge.MD, telemedicine startup Avizia has raised fresh capital for an aggressive expansion plan this year. It raised $4 million, according to a Form D filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In an interview with...
by Keith Kuhn | Mar 1, 2015 | Provider
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced changes Friday to its often-critiqued five-star rating system for nursing home quality, changes that are likely to negatively affect the ratings for thousands of facilities. Among the adjustments: the...
by Keith Kuhn | Feb 28, 2015 | Government
A bill that would boost telemedicine in Colorado by preventing health insurance plans from requiring in-person care to patients when it can be appropriately provided remotely progressed to the House floor on a unanimous committee vote Thursday. The House Health,...
by Keith Kuhn | Feb 27, 2015 | Industry
From R&D to patient care, technology has the opportunity to drastically improve the US healthcare system. Here are seven important ways it can happen. It’s no secret that the US healthcare system is broken. A report released by the Commonwealth Fund, a US...
