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Financial well-being, health care affordability are top concerns for workers and…
Employers are showing greater concern over their workers’ financial well-being as well as their workers’ ability to afford health care. Those were among the takeaways from the Mercer 2023-24 Inside Employees Minds study, which was the topic of a recent webinar. This year marks the third edition of the study, which has been compiled in…
More doctors should go into digital health startups
In my decade living in Silicon Valley as a digital health journalist and now an investor, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people in the tech industry claim that doctors don’t have what it takes for a career in entrepreneurship. As the traditional thinking goes, because they’re so risk-averse and lack business…
Health care price transparency could save Americans $1T annually
Fox News senior correspondent Alicia Acuna reports on a new survey which shows doctors’ appointments in metropolitan areas are hard to come by. EXCLUSIVE: Requiring price transparency from hospitals and insurance companies could drastically slash national health care costs and extend the average American life expectancy, according to a new report published by advocacy group…
Apple has plans to eventually, maybe revolutionize health care
By Mark Gurman and Drake Bennett | Bloomberg In 2011, a startup called Avolonte Health set up shop in a small office park in Palo Alto, California. The company operated out of a bland, two-story building bristling with security cameras. Engineers interviewing for jobs there weren’t even told what they’d be working on. Once new…
More UK businesses considering private health insurance for staff, poll finds
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK business leaders’ worries about the impact of long NHS waiting lists on productivity have been laid bare in a new poll that shows up to four in 10 are considering private health insurance for…
Symposium in Little Rock examines impact of technology on health care in Arkansa…
As president of Bioventures, the technology licensing office and business incubator based at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Dr. Kevin Sexton helps researchers in the health care field turn their ideas into startups. But at a symposium in Little Rock on Wednesday on the future of health care in Arkansas, Sexton also emphasized…
Health Equity by Design: Building Best Practices in Medical Innovation
This year’s MedtechVISION (MedtechWOMEN’s annual conference) was dedicated to the challenges and opportunities in addressing health equity in the medical device industry. While the panel on women’s health was particularly timely, and the economics of improving equity provided plenty of fuel for those seeking the financial bottom line, the panel in-between was nearest and dearest…