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.

Healthcare AI startup raises a fresh $226M, spends $120M to acquire another healthcare AI startup

An Ohio-based healthcare AI company focused on improving fiscal performance for payers as well as providers is buying a like-minded entity with expertise in streamlining prior-authorization processes.  

Opinion: For healthcare AI to be all that it can be, ‘the user’s needs must come first’

AI will only succeed in healthcare to the extent that it wins over all three stakeholder subpopulations—providers, payers and patients.

5 mixed takes on the opening of Amazon Pharmacy

When Amazon opened the doors of its drugstore business Nov. 17, the potential competitive ramifications rattled that industry on many levels. Would establishment drug sellers stand a chance against the mighty retail innovator?

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Nuance hands off 2 business units, leans hard into conversational AI

A new company called DeliverHealth Solutions is forming to service clients of Nuance’s HIM transcription and EHR go-live businesses.

Surprise medical bills cost younger adults more

Millennials are feeling the pain of surprise medical bills more acutely than the generations that preceded them.

Life sciences going all in with AI, with many companies spending upwards of $50M—and counting

The COVID crisis will spur leaders of life sciences companies around the world to focus on longstanding pain points that AI could help alleviate. And the execs are looking to put their money where their responses are.

3 recent notable approvals of medical AI

Along with AI, this ongoing list includes regulatory clearances of virtual and augmented reality, 3D printing and other emerging technologies targeted for healthcare.

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Microsoft finetuning anti-pandemic technologies in a ‘stimulating playground for algorithm development’

A university, health system and tech giant are piloting the use of deep learning with IoT and edge computing to block COVID-19 from infiltrating a 548-bed hospital.

Around the web

Updated compensation data includes good news for multiple subspecialties. The new report also examines private equity's impact on employment models and how much male cardiologists earn compared to females.

When drugs are on the FDA’s shortage list, outsourcing facilities can produce their own compounded versions. When the FDA removed tirzepatide from that list with no warning, it created a considerable amount of chaos both behind the scenes and in pharmacies all over the country. 

If passed, this bill would help clinician-led clinical registries explore Medicare data for research purposes. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and American College of Cardiology both shared public support for the bipartisan legislation. 

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