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Articles from the Healthcare Category
Healthcare’s Road to Ruin
NY Times | December 21, 2013
Category: Healthcare
There are plenty of interesting ideas being floated to help repair the system, many of which are being used in other countries, where health care spending is often about half of that in the United States.
Digital Health Insights Report for the 50+ Market
StartUp Health | AARP | December 12, 2013
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific, Venture Capital
StartUp Health and AARP announce the first ever digital health funding insights report evaluating the 50+ market. This report highlights the encouraging rise in health innovation among a growing population with increased medical needs.
Khosla explains his ‘robots replacing doctors’ comment
VentureBeat | December 5, 2013
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific
Vinod Khosla’s first bone to pick is with technology journalists, whom he refers to as “English grads who don’t understand English.” His second is with modern medicine, which he believes is more of a practice rather than a science.
CMS Physician Fee Schedule Outlines New Telehealth Service Regions
FierceHealthIT | December 4, 2013
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced changes to Medicare’s 2014 physician fee schedule to expand coverage for telehealth services.
Obamacare is Upon Us …
Inc. | December 1, 2013
Category: Healthcare
This article is the first installment of an eight-part series on how to cope with the implementation of Obamacare.
As Boomers Become Seniors, Healthcare Technology Demand Grows
Information Week | November 26, 2013
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific
Tech-savvy seniors will begin to enter the healthcare market in the coming years, so the industry needs to prepare for this new type of aging patient.
Why are Healthcare Startups Harder? Watch this Video!
MedCity News | November 26, 2013
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific
If you know anyone who still thinks “fixing healthcare” is easy, send them this video. Steve Blank moderated this session that features four venture capitalists discussing revenue models in therapeutics, devices, diagnostics and digital health.
Analysis of huge data sets will reshape healthcare
USA Today | November 24, 2013
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific
Insurers will soon reassess how they predict costs; patients will let doctors know what medications won’t work with their particular genomes; and researchers will look at hospital records in real time to determine the cheapest, most effective ways to treat …
Medicine isn’t a science yet, but data will make it so
Venturebeat | November 24, 2013
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific, Venture Capital
Legendary venture capitalist Vinod Khosla ruffled a lot of feathers last year with his prediction that computers would soon replace a majority of the tasks that human doctors currently perform.
Genomics pose “daunting” test for EHRs
Healthcare IT News | November 22, 2013
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific
Terabytes of data mean unprecedented storage and interoperability issues … but this problem represents a huge opportunity for HIT entrepreneurs and investors.