Posts Tagged ‘technology’
How New Technology Drives Up Health Costs
Heart devices known as drug-eluting stents have added as much as $1.57 billion to U.S. health costs since their introduction in 2003, U.S. researchers said on Monday. The study offers an illustration of how new technology can drive ... Read the rest of this entry »
Freakonomics » Here's Why Health Care Costs Are Outpacing Health …
In the United States, health care technology has contributed to rising survival rates, yet health care spending relative to GDP has also grown more rapidly than in any other country. We develop a model of patient demand and supplier ... Read the rest of this entry »
Questioning Mobile Health – Better Health
We love the concept of health apps for what they represent more than for what they really offer us. We want to feel that we've got it all in the palm of our hand. After all, technology might do for us what we won't do for ourselves. ... Read the rest of this entry »
Home health care could help sustain health care systems, study …
Home health care technology may provide one important solution to global concerns about how to sustain health care systems threatened by rising costs and manpower shortages, but such a change faces multiple obstacles to adoption, ... Read the rest of this entry »
A Netflix for Doctors: Myca Health's CEO Findlay Offers Health IT …
Nat Findlay is a former Cardinal Health executive and serial entrepreneur who tells me he founded Myca Health in 2002 around technology that enabled people to. Read the rest of this entry »
AT&T's Bet on Health Technology – NYTimes.com
Health technology spending is likely to keep growing, despite changes in Washington. AT&T is the latest company to bet heavily on this business. Read the rest of this entry »
Growth Should Be A Given In Health Care IT – Alexandra Zendrian …
"This is an industry where every company should do better each quarter," said Glen Tullman, chief executive officer of Allscripts, referring to his industry of health care information technology, in an interview on the day of the ... Read the rest of this entry »