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Articles from the Healthcare Category
The Biggest Mistake Doctors Make
Wall Street Journal | November 17, 2013
Category: Healthcare
Devastating errors lead to permanent damage or death for as many as 160,000 patients each year, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. Not only are diagnostic problems more common than other medical mistakes—and more likely to harm patients—but they’re …
New Medical School in Austin is Great for Healthcare Venture Capitalists
Austin Business Journal | November 15, 2013
Category: Healthcare, TEXO GP Publications, Venture Capital
For two decades, Austin and its investors and startups have tried to get this city truly into the healthcare game. It’s been a slow road to bring healthcare up to the level of the area’s hardware and software infrastructure … …
3 Hot Health IT Investment Opportunities
Venturebeat | October 4, 2013
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific, Venture Capital
Health IT is hot, and it’s about time. Investors and entrepreneurs alike are flocking to the sector that once seemed insurmountable, yet is desperately in need of imagination, creation, and disruption.
How to Design a Bundled Payment Around Value
Harvard Business Review | October 3, 2013
Category: Healthcare
The traditional fee-for-service reimbursement model is widely acknowledged to be a major driver of escalating health care costs. Because it rewards the volume of treatments, not the medical outcomes produced, it offers no way for the industry to reward its …
5 Hot Startup Opportunities Created by Health Care Reform
Venturebeat | October 1, 2013
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific
A key provision of the Affordable Care Act is going into effect today as statewide insurance exchanges open up around the country. But that’s just the latest in a series of changes to the U.S. health care system that will …
48 Million Americans Without Health Insurance
CNN Money | September 17, 2013
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific
The share of uninsured people decreased to 15.4%, from 15.7% a year earlier, according to a Census Bureau report released Tuesday. Some 48 million people were uninsured in 2012, which was not statistically different from the prior year.
Why Health Care Is Stuck – And How to Fix It
Harvard Business Review | September 17, 2013
Category: Healthcare
The pressures for fundamental change in health care have been building for decades, but meaningful change has been limited while the urgency of change only grows. The moment of discontinuity has arrived. Already unsustainable costs, an aging population, advances in …
SurgeryPlus From EmployerDirect Reduces the Costs of Planned Medical Procedures by 30-50 Percent
Yahoo! Finance | September 13, 2013
Category: Healthcare, Portfolio Companies
EmployerDirect, a leader in value-based healthcare that helps large, self-insured employers improve the quality of their employees’ planned medical procedures, is pleased to announce that it now offers SurgeryPlus, a supplemental healthcare benefit that reduces the costs of planned medical …
Electronic monitoring helps nurses boost hand-washing compliance
Fierce Health IT | August 30, 2013
Category: Healthcare, Portfolio Companies, Sector Specific
Electronic monitoring helped to dramatically improve hand hygiene among nurses in Canada, according to research published this month in the journal Computers, Informatics, Nursing.
Five Things You Don’t Know About Health Care Reform
Businessweek | August 21, 2013
Category: Healthcare
Insurance sign-ups are just around the corner for millions of Americans under health-care reform, yet there’s still much people don’t know about this landmark legislation, particularly those changes occurring over the next decade inside hospitals, clinics, and doctors’ offices.