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By leveraging its large membership, Medicare could by embracing value-based contracting significantly influence the pharmaceutical market, pitting competing drugs against each other, or encouraging pharmaceutical makers to figure out ways to deliver drugs more cheaply.

To help address the diabetes epidemic, providers should incorporate remote patient monitoring into the standard of care, according to Kaiser Permanente physician Dr. Sos Mboijana. When treating chronic conditions like diabetes, having access to a continuous flow of patient data is critical, he said.

Implementing and pursuing innovation in digital health and healthcare IT should be a priority for all U.S. healthcare providers and payers — especially as the lessons and response to the Covid-19 pandemic become permanently part of our everyday lives.

NovaWell, the behavioral health affiliate of Horizon Healthcare Services, is offering four solutions for health plans and health systems. The program was created from Horizon's own success in New Jersey.

A series of recently released studies on Papa, a companion care company, found that the startup reduced emergency department visits, decreased healthcare spending and improved loneliness.

Cancer is a serious public health issue, accounting for nearly 10 million deaths and over 19 million new cancer cases around the world in 2020. The WHO estimates that the number of new cancer cases will increase to nearly 29 million in 2040. This alarming statistic is indicative of the huge focus and investment that will flow into oncology worldwide. What are the objectives of digital health technologies in the journey of the cancer patient? Innovative Digital Health solutions have the potentia...

Home care is no longer only for elderly patients who require a visiting nurse to come into their home and check on them post-discharge. Pippa Shulman, Medically Home's chief medical officer, said that her company's health systems partners need to be on board with the fact that hospital-level care is moving away from brick-and-mortar facilities. In her view, home care does a great job of humanizing patients and gives providers a window into how they live and maintain their health.

Machine learning algorithms have reached a familiar milestone in the healthcare industry --in order for them to be more widely embraced by providers, different approaches to roadtesting and validating them are underway.

At the 5th annual HLTH conference in Las Vegas, 14 healthcare executives from companies such as Babson Diagnostics to Wheel responded to questions such as what's the difference between a positive and negative user experience in telehealth? They also previewed their plans for 2023.

A new venture capital firm named HC9 Ventures recently launched and announced the close of a $83 million fund. It is led by three healthcare industry veterans, and its more than 125 investors are "intentionally and only healthcare executives,” according to HC9 Co-Founder Richard Lungen.