As Walmart, Amazon, Walgreens and more retailers move into healthcare, patients have more options than ever before — but only if they have the resources necessary to access and navigate those options.
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Big tech companies such as Amazon, Google and Apple are all making headway in the healthcare space. But how will they actually change the way healthcare is delivered?
Though healthcare is not known for being particularly open to lasting change, Walmart's ongoing attempt to revolutionize care delivery with its consumer-first approach could be the one that sticks, according to Knowledge@Wharton.
CVS Health is now offering Sleepio, an all-digital insomnia treatment app, to CVS Caremark pharmacy benefit management clients, The New York Times reports.
Google Health finalized its complete acquisition of DeepMind, a U.K. startup the tech giant acquired for more than $500 million in 2014, according to a blog post by Google Health U.K. site lead Dr. Dominic King.
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CVS has poached former Fitbit and Walgreens executive Adam Pellegrini to lead its consumer health initiatives, according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC.
Here are five updates on issues surrounding "Medicare for All" proposals published by Becker's Hospital Review in the past month:
Some small business CEOs are arguing entrepreneurship would grow if health insurance was disconnected from employment benefits, according to Kaiser Health News.
UnitedHealth Group's Optum poses the biggest perceived threat to hospital and health system executives worried about non-hospital competitors that offer consumer-friendly health services, according to Kaufman Hall's 2019 State of Consumerism in Healthcare report.
Within the next decade, healthcare will see emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, predictive analytics and blockchain spurring billions of dollars in value increases, according to a new McKinsey & Company report on this tech-driven "era of exponential growth."