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Health insurance premiums have risen 4% for workers in 2021.
Annual premiums for employer-sponsored family health coverage…
Aiming to give its 4.6 million enrollees instant info on out-of-pocket costs, Blue Shield of California has locked arms with Google Cloud and its tech partners to set up real-time claims processing.…
Walmart has partnered with health records system provider Epic to standardize EHR tools and processes at its health centers.
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Telehealth appointments only make up about 20% of all doctor appointments.
That’s according to a new report from KLAS and…
Google is scattering its healthcare endeavors across separate departments, according to a memo leaked to Insider.
Where…
CVS Health has updated its ExtraCare Rewards loyalty program to offer up 2% cashback to its members after nearly every transaction. That’s a change from offering the cashback on a quarterly basis.…
The vast majority of health care executives say digital transformation across their organizations is accelerating, according to a recent survey of 399 executives from six countries.…
Mayo Clinic Health System is permanently closing five locations in Minnesota and Iowa.
The Rochester, Minnesota-based…
E-commerce giant Amazon has enabled an online price comparison tool for customers to find and compare the expected price of their medication.
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Walmart is advancing its healthcare capabilities with the acquisition of telehealth provider MeMD.
Financial terms of the…
As the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted industries around the world, many have been wondering what changes will remain as business goes back to normal. In healthcare, it is likely that an increased demand for…
Telehealth claim lines rose 2,817% from December 2019 to December 2020, according to a new report that revealed how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed how healthcare is delivered and consumed. Compared to the…
Health insurance giant Humana is joining forces with IBM Watson to equip Humana’s Employer Group members with a conversational AI solution.
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Transitioning to fully electronic transactions could save the healthcare industry $16.3 billion, or about 42% of existing annual spend on administrative transactions.…
Emulating finance’s use of satellite parking-lot imagery to guide investments in retail, researchers have tapped Google search patterns to helpfully predict ebbs and flows of COVID cases across the U.S.…
YouTube has created a new health partnerships team to shore up healthcare information on its video platform, which has more than 2 billion signed-in monthly users. The effort will help support and disseminate…
Kaiser Permanente is scaling up its cloud capabilities through a new deal with Microsoft and Accenture. The partnership will better support digital experiences for Kaiser’s 12.4 million members and more than 85…
Healthcare providers are quickly shifting to meet the needs of consumers, rolling out new technology to add virtual care and better payment processes.
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Americans’ famous affinity for rugged individualism may help explain why there’s more resistance to location-based COVID mitigation efforts here than in many other parts of the world. …
Fewer than 10% of dermatology patients who were seen virtually during the COVID pandemic said they would not use teledermatology again—and only 7% said they’d not recommend telehealth to a friend.…
