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After stumble, diabetes membership jump drives Livongo to Q3 beat
The digital heath company has struggled to live up to expectations since going public earlier this year, but posted third quarter sales Wednesday of $46.7 million, almost $4 million above the top end of its outlook.
By Nick Paul Taylor • Nov. 07, 2019 -
Deep DiveRetail makes its case, telehealth and voice tech dominate: 6 takeaways from HLTH19
Consumerism has its limits, interoperability rules face execution challenges and more from Las Vegas.
By Rebecca Pifer • Nov. 06, 2019 -
1st round picks in AI challenge include Mayo, Merck, IBM
CMS said it received entries from more than 300 groups for the competition to develop tools that can predict unplanned hospital admissions and adverse events.
By Shannon Muchmore • Nov. 04, 2019 -
Deep DiveHLTH19: Telehealth seeks to move beyond flu, but stymied by regulations
"I think we're past the tipping point of where virtual care becomes expected or embedded," Teladoc COO David Sides said at the conference. "I don't think you can put the genie back in the bottle."
By Rebecca Pifer • Nov. 01, 2019 -
Google to acquire Fitbit in $2.1B deal, challenging Apple
The deal deepens the big tech's position in healthcare, giving it a line of wearables that could assess conditions like atrial fibrillation and sleep apnea.
By Maria Rachal • Nov. 01, 2019 -
Q&AA UK challenger to da Vinci seeks to chip away at robotic surgery 'monopoly'
Having filed a submission with FDA and won a CE mark, CMR Surgical has a head start on household names like Medtronic and J&J, all of which are seeking a slice of the robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery market.
By Maria Rachal • Oct. 31, 2019 -
Teladoc revenues, visits rise on heels of UnitedHealth contract
The virtual health company had the greatest population expansion in its history in the third quarter and now expects total U.S. paid membership to be about 35 million for the full year.
By Linda Wilson • Oct. 31, 2019 -
AI voice tech startup Suki partners with Google Cloud
Suki's CEO told Healthcare Dive the digital assistant will be announcing two "very, very large" deployments with major U.S. health systems in the next month or so.
By Rebecca Pifer • Oct. 30, 2019 -
Deep DiveA rough flu season is predicted — but it's an opportunity for some
The ultimate impact for hospitals depends heavily on how widespread and severe the virus is, analysts say. For telehealth companies, it's a chance to nab new regular customers.
By Shannon Muchmore • Oct. 30, 2019 -
Google eyes AI to cut hospital red tape, move providers beyond 'data clerks'
Former Geisinger chief David Feinberg laid out the search giant's health vision at HLTH on Monday, including pushing the movement to outpatient care.
By Rebecca Pifer • Oct. 29, 2019 -
Livongo inks pacts with Doctor on Demand, MDLive
The digital chronic disease company that recently went public will offer telehealth services to its behavioral health members and users of its diabetes and hypertension platforms and services soon after.
By Linda Wilson • Oct. 29, 2019 -
Facebook launches preventive care tool in tandem with healthcare groups
Though Facebook's head of healthcare promised the social media giant wouldn't sell or use the personal health information, the announcement is likely to rile consumer privacy groups.
By Rebecca Pifer • Oct. 28, 2019 -
Patients give high marks to telehealth, but uptake still limited
Teladoc edged out Doctor on Demand by a hair in the J.D. Power survey that found patient satisfaction with virtual care is high overall.
By Ron Shinkman • Oct. 28, 2019 -
Uber lands EHR deal with Cerner
The partnership announced Sunday at the HLTH conference will allow clients to schedule non-emergency medical transportation for their patients in the ride-hailing giant's first EHR integration.
By Rebecca Pifer • Oct. 28, 2019 -
FDA clears duodenoscope add-on device aimed at reducing infection
GI Scientific CEO Scott Miller, who formerly held strategy roles at Covidien and Edwards Lifesciences, said study data on the device's efficacy will be published in the coming weeks.
By Maria Rachal • Oct. 28, 2019 -
Mastercard launches new healthcare unit on billing, data security
New products include predictive analytics built into a health system's billing platform, allowing the provider to personalize patient payment plans, and AI tech to detect suspicious claims activity and fraud.
By Rebecca Pifer • Oct. 27, 2019 -
Race-based bias in care extends even to algorithms, study says
A new study in the journal Science claims that a widely-used algorithm intended to refer patients in a neutral manner may actually be biased against black patients.
By Ron Shinkman • Oct. 24, 2019 -
7 can't-miss panels at HLTH19
Some of healthcare's biggest names are converging in Las Vegas in just a few days for the second annual HLTH conference. We've combed through the dozens of panels so you don't have to.
By Rebecca Pifer • Oct. 24, 2019 -
Cerner reports mixed Q3 earnings amid 'eventful' quarter
Revenue of $1.43 billion, up almost 7% year over year, was in line with Wall Street expectations, although the Kansas City-based EHR company slightly missed earnings estimates.
By Rebecca Pifer • Oct. 24, 2019 -
Amazon acquires digital health startup, 1 year post-Pillpack
Health Navigator, which provides online symptom checking, clinical documentation support and triage tools to route patients to the correct site of care, will be folded into the retail giant's virtual medical clinic, Amazon Care.
By Rebecca Pifer • Oct. 24, 2019 -
Canon gets FDA nod for AI tech to enhance CT images
Rising use of CT scans, which expose patients to far more radiation than X-rays, has intensified focus on the risks of the imaging technique, particularly in the pediatric population.
By Nick Paul Taylor • Oct. 24, 2019 -
Deep Dive5 insights from a chat with Larry Merlo, CEO of CVS Health
Healthcare Dive talked to Merlo, who rose up the ranks to lead the giant chain over three decades, about CVS' rivals, the path to the Aetna acquisition and potential arenas for disruption.
By Rebecca Pifer • Oct. 23, 2019 -
Cleveland Clinic, American Well partner on virtual visits with specialists
The joint venture extends the relationship between the nonprofit system and telehealth vendor, which have collaborated since 2014 to provide 24-hour access to virtual non-emergency care for many minor illnesses and injuries.
By Linda Wilson • Oct. 23, 2019 -
UPS flies further into healthcare with CVS, AmerisourceBergen, provider partnerships
UPS has "started with a hospital campus environment and [is] now expanding scale and use-cases" as it doubles down on healthcare, the company's chief strategy and transformation officer said.
By Shefali Kapadia • Oct. 22, 2019 -
Cerner expands federal investment with acquisition of VA software consultant AbleVets
Virginia-based AbleVets is one of the key IT companies in the controversial plan to transition vets from the VA system to private healthcare services.
By Ron Shinkman • Oct. 21, 2019
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