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Articles from the Sector Specific Category
Don’t Bother Complaining About High-Deductible Health Plans
Harvard Business Review | November 13, 2014
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific
High-deductible health plans are clearly setting big changes in motion. Here’s how various stakeholders can cope with new realities instead of turning a blind eye …
Most health startups likely to fail because they don’t understand health care payment models
VentureBeat | October 25, 2014
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific
60 to 70 percent of digital health startups are likely to fail because they are unclear about their go-to market strategy, and don’t have a good understanding of who’s ultimately going to pay for their product.
The Value of Telemedicine
GlobalMed | September 26, 2014
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific
Telemedicine improves healthcare … 30% decrease in hospital admissions, 60% decrease in doctor visits and 97% of patients are treated within 8 minutes.
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.
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.
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 …