innovation
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Jefferson Health-backed Tendo Systems gains $50M to digitize patient journey
Tendo Systems, a company that is co-developing a digital engagement platform with provider organizations like Jefferson Health, raised $50 million in a new funding round. The funds will be used to advance the development of the platform, which aims to be the “OpenTable” of healthcare.
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Q&A: Cleveland Clinic Innovations’ new head has his eyes trained on the future
In a wide-ranging interview, Dr. Geoff Vince, the new executive director of Cleveland Clinic Innovations, discussed his plans for how the commercialization arm will operate, the technologies he thinks will drive interest and whether the pandemic has changed approaches to innovation.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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Where 5 CIOs see IT innovation heading as pandemic winds down
The Covid-19 pandemic has upended the healthcare industry in a myriad of ways — including the focus of IT innovation. Healthcare CIOs are seeing IT innovation priorities shift to arenas like at-home care, data science and supply chain.
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Health IT, Telemedicine, Diagnostics
Key investment opportunities to drive healthcare innovation in 2021
During a panel discussion at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, three physicians from Stanford Medicine discussed the investment opportunities that can help accelerate innovation in healthcare in the coming year.
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Innovative payment models to support cell and gene therapies on the rise (video)
As precision medicine gains steam, the question arises: how can reimbursement models evolve to support these often costly therapies and ensure patient access is not blocked? Drugmakers and payers are working together to find some answers.
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Tampa General Hospital to launch venture capital fund
The Florida-based hospital plans to launch the fund next year, under the leadership of a newly named vice president of innovation. It will be used to support startups and invest directly in healthcare companies.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Services, Health Tech
How the value of innovation will be redefined in 2021
While payers and policymakers took a more narrow-minded perspective on innovation value in 2020, the year 2021 will bring an increased focus on a treatment’s societal value, how innovation interacts with digital technologies, and whether new innovations are able to reduce existing health outcome inequalities.
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How much will drug price controls harm innovation? It depends
The drug industry maintains that policies like foreign reference pricing and letting Medicare negotiate prices would harm innovation. But closer examination reveals that while there is truth to that claim, it’s more complex than it appears at first glance.
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A preview of the Manova Summit exploring healthcare transformation
The second edition of the Manova Summit in Minneapolis October 14-16 will take a wider perspective of healthcare transformation.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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Health IT, MedCity Influencers
Is chatbot-led communication sufficient for healthcare?
Unlike other industries, where artificial intelligence has successfully replaced many human interactions, healthcare must remain human first, technology second.
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Google, Sanofi use technology to better understand diseases and treatments
The two organizations have teamed up to establish an innovation lab, which will apply technology and analytics to Sanofi’s real-world database in an effort to better understand diseases and which treatments work for patients.
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Ochsner Health System is addressing innovation inside and outside the hospital
A visit to the Louisiana health system sheds some light on how it is innovatively addressing chronic diseases like hypertension and diabetes, the inpatient experience and more.
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Intermountain Healthcare opens new innovation center with partner
The 30,000-square-foot facility in Salt Lake City will be used for evaluating, testing and designing new revenue cycle management technologies for hospitals, health systems and physician groups and will also serve as a client experience center.
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Report outlines 6 tips for scaling innovation at health systems
A new report by the Center for Connected Medicine and The Health Management Academy suggests health systems should define innovation, empower their decision-makers and maximize their strengths, among other practices.
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Hackensack Meridian Health opens new center focused on research and innovation
Called the Center for Discovery and Innovation, the facility will give researchers the support to develop therapies for diabetes, dementia, cancer, auto-immune disorders and antibiotic-resistant infection.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
