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Articles from the Healthcare Category
Innovative products help health care firm EmployerDirect grow quickly, hire more staff
Austin Business Journal | September 22, 2014
Category: Healthcare, Portfolio Companies, Sector Specific
EmployerDirect, an Austin-based health care management company that serves employer-funded health plans, expects to grow its coverage base to more than 1.5 million people by 2015 with the introduction of products like its new SurgeryPlus benefit.
Ortho Kinematics Enters Agreement with Medtronic for Promotion of VMA
Press Release | September 16, 2014
Category: Healthcare, Portfolio Companies, Sector Specific, Venture Capital
Medtronic, Inc.’s Spinal and Biologics division will promote the VMA to spine surgeons, securing a leadership position in the growing area of spine diagnostics.
Televero Health Selected as 1 of 8 Healthcare Companies to Partner with Dell
Dell Press Release | September 16, 2014
Category: Healthcare, Portfolio Companies
These high-growth startups have been identified by Dell as the companies to watch this fall and were chosen based on their record of disrupting their respective industries through innovative products and creative solutions. Dell for Entrepreneurs* will provide this global …
Devicemaker sales reps being replaced in the OR
Modern Healthcare | August 16, 2014
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific
To cut the price of orthopedic implants and curb the influence of manufacturers, some hospitals are training their own employees to provide technical assistance to operating room staff, displacing company sales representatives who have offered this service to surgeons for decades.
High deductibles force doctors to discuss costs
Modern Healthcare | August 16, 2014
Category: Healthcare
Doctors accustomed to fielding patient questions about the benefits of procedures, drugs and tests say patients increasingly are demanding answers to some very different questions: How much will it cost, do I really need it and can it wait?
Telehealth could rake in $6B in savings!
Healthcare IT News | August 14, 2014
Category: Healthcare, Portfolio Companies, Sector Specific
Looking to save a few bucks? Telehealth might just be the golden ticket to getting there, at least according to new analysis suggesting the remote care delivery model could potentially save U.S. companies a whopping $6 billion.
House bill seeks to phase in Medicare coverage of telemedicine, remote patient monitoring
MobiHealthNews | July 23, 2014
Category: Healthcare, Portfolio Companies, Sector Specific
Representatives Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) and Glenn Thompson (R-Penn.) are set to announce a new telehealth bill soon. Like some of Mike Thompson’s previous telehealth efforts, the bill seeks to amend the Title XVIII of the Social Security Act, the law that …
Bundled Payments Could Cut Medicare Fraud
USA Today | May 19, 2014
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific
Health and policy experts are pushing for a system that pays doctors a lump sum for medical care or allows them to share in savings, saying it will save millions of dollars over current fee-for-service payments that can lead to …
Healthcare’s dysfunction offers opportunity
Modern Healthcare | May 17, 2014
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific
The dysfunction of healthcare may very well be the greatest business opportunity out there. Those who can dig through the morass of rules, paperwork and bureaucratic obstacles have a frontier ahead of them in an industry where great service, low …
Tapping into Controversial Back Surgeries
CBS News | April 24, 2014
Category: Healthcare, Portfolio Companies, Sector Specific
Back pain is one of the most common reasons Americans go to the doctor, and one of the fastest growing treatments is spinal fusion surgery. From 2001 to 2011, the number of spinal fusions in U.S. hospitals increased 70 percent, …