Economics

This channel highlights factors that impact hospital and healthcare economics and revenue. This includes news on healthcare policies, reimbursement, marketing, business plans, mergers and acquisitions, supply chain, salaries, staffing, and the implementation of a cost-effective environment for patients and providers.

Macquarie acquires 50% stake in Medical Properties Trust

Macquarie Asset Management, a global financial services group, has acquired a 50% stake in Medical Properties Trust.

 

September 1, 2021

COVID-19 vaccines have buoyed healthcare profits

Healthcare companies have seen profits rise during the second quarter of 2021 thanks to COVID-19 vaccines and Americans returned to doctors’ offices.

 

August 30, 2021
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Notable regulatory approvals of emerging technologies over the past 30 days

Along with AI in its various iterations, the list may include virtual and augmented reality, 3D printing, robotics and other innovative technologies changing healthcare delivery.

August 30, 2021
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Hospitals, payers slippery when ‘transparent’

Why is it common for patients with no coverage at all to pay much lower prices than their insured peers—or for those with high-deductible plans to pay out of pocket even after reaching the high deductible?

August 23, 2021
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Legal battle brewing over AI’s potential status as a ‘nonhuman inventor’

If humans and only humans can be named inventors on U.S. patent applications, some AI developers are going to be disincentivized from innovating.

August 16, 2021
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Machine learning helps explain, quantify differences between men’s and women’s soccer

Women soccer players have either better ball-recovery skills than men or worse ball retainment. Either way, the result is a “more fragmented game” in women’s soccer.

August 13, 2021
Money

Radiologists among the most in-demand health workers, earning No. 5 highest starting salary

The specialty came in just below non-interventional cardiologists' $446K average and well-behind invasive heart docs' whopping $611K.

August 11, 2021
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AI finds ‘diamonds in the rough’ among rejected residency applicants

Medical educators have used machine learning to reconsider—and ultimately select—some 20 qualified residents who had been screened out by human reviewers at their institution.

August 10, 2021

Around the web

This week Washington took a major step toward nailing down a solid game plan on federal AI spending for everything outside of defense.

The recall includes specific lots of five different medical devices used to treat stroke and other neurovascular diseases.

The agency is urging healthcare providers to transition away from these devices and seek out alternatives. It is even working with other manufacturers to try and get similar products on the market as quickly as possible. 

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