Healthcare Innovations

A large study conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management recently found that employers are cutting back on wellness benefits, including flu-shots, nurse hot-lines, health coaching, and financial incentives for weight loss. This appears to be motivated by…

Data compiled by Rock Health, a San Francisco digital healthcare accelerator/investor, shows that the Bay Area is gaining ground in digital healthcare investing (see chart below). Three years ago, Boston and the Bay Area were…

Dr. Robert Pearl posted on this question two weeks ago. His background is medicine, and mine is business, so I will offer my own take from a business perspective.

Mark Twain famously remarked “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated” when The New York Journal published his obituary prematurely. The same can be said of the death of employer…

Bruce Japsen observed in a post this week that compensation is rising for primary care doctors. He attributes the change to value-based payments taking hold, and also…

A large-scale survey of U.S. doctors conducted by Decision Resources Group tells us that doctors are using digital tools and willing to receive data feeds from their customers, but they are quite frustrated by poor usability of digital…