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As pharma becomes part of the value-based revolution, there are several lessons that can be learned from the ongoing development of value-based care.

Two Pennsylvania lawmakers are warning their constituents about UPMC, claiming the health system has built a monopoly that negatively affects both employee wellbeing and patient safety. They said UPMC has “considerable power over workers, which it wields to keep wages low, conditions unsatisfactory and prevent union organizing.”

More than half of technology leaders at the country’s top 50 health systems by net patient revenue said they’re investing more money into interoperability initiatives in 2023 than they did last year, according to a new report. Participating in health information exchanges is a key way that health systems strengthen their interoperability strategy.

The healthcare navigation market — especially companies targeting self-insured employers — is fairly crowded. You have public companies like Accolade, failed public companies like Castlight Health, now private and merged with Vera Whole Health and a raft of other private companies like Included Health, Rightway, and HealthJoy. Not to mention point solutions for diabetes, MSK, hypertension, weight loss and so on that aim to lower costs related to these conditions for employers and health pla...

The new company is called Lucet and was created out of the 2022 merger between New Directions Behavioral Health and Tridiuum. Lucet unveiled its solution called Navigate & Connect, which helps connect health plan members to behavioral health care.

A collaboration between Nvidia and startup Evozyne was able to produce novel versions of a human protein never before seen in nature but with enhanced function and the same safety as native protein. The research lays the groundwork for potential new therapies for a rare inherited disorder.

Cancer continues to be a hot area of investment, and it’s the therapeutic focus of several biotech companies that have closed recent rounds of financing. Meanwhile, the investment arm of a big pharmaceutical company has an infusion of new cash to deploy in therapeutic and digital investments.

Healthcare could learn from the data improvement strategies that other industries have implemented in the past decade, a new report said. For example, the military, aerospace industry and aviation sector have all developed ways to standardize data, decrease silos and make information more accessible between organizations.

With five tracks of startups across healthcare and life sciences, INVEST Pitch Perfect, scheduled for May 22-24 at the Ritz Carlton in Chicago, is MedCity's largest startup pitch contest of the year. 

History has shown that while healthcare is more open to adopting technology to improve outcomes, bureaucracy, ego, money, or indifference to change still tend to get in the way.  Technology is not our only problem unfortunately, healthcare has so many more.  In this article, I put together some statistics that show we still have a long way to go to make healthcare more accessible to everyone. Here are the 25 shocking statistics that keep healthcare executives up at night. Medicare reimburseme...