Business Intelligence

Providers utilize business intelligence to monitor referral patterns and collaborate with clinicians who order their services. Such analytics tools have also been deployed in the specialty to improve productivity, track patient satisfaction and bolster quality.

Consolidation of physician practices proceeds apace, corporatizing medicine one acquisition at a time
The days when most doctors worked in independent practice settings are fading from memory like old photoprints in a dog-eared scrapbook.
Investor-bought PCPs carry on like nothing much has changed—with caveats
Private-equity acquisitions of primary-care provider practices neither alter hospitalization rates nor affect acute-care outcomes, according to new research out of Brown University.
12 of the top technology vendors serving children’s hospitals
Epic makes the list with its enterprise inpatient EHR and related platforms. So does PCC, aka Physician’s Computer Company, which supplies pediatric-specific ambulatory EHR and practice-management products and services.
Weight loss drugs are hiking employer healthcare prices, with 87% saying they expect costs to only go up
In a survey, employers told the Business Group on Health that they aren’t yet seeing evidence of long-term health benefits from taking GLP-1s for weight loss, leaving them unsure how to manage costs while continuing to cover them.
Former healthcare CEO sentenced to 5 years in prison for role in $212M fraud conspiracy
Parmjit “Paul” Parmar, 55, from New Jersey has also been ordered to pay $125 million in restitution. The scheme to defraud investors was uncovered in 2017.

Healthcare company focusing on the needs of women 65+ secures millions in funding

Herself Health is the first primary care provider to focus solely on the needs of women ages 65 and up.

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

Voices from the AI beat on Llama 2, Meta’s freebie bid to outpace ChatGPT

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is offering the latest version of its large language AI model, Llama 2, for free and on an open-source basis.

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

3 tips on generative AI for tech leaders in the C-suite

The world’s present reckoning with a certain transformative technology ought to contain echoes of the past for CIOs and CTOs who were working their way up 10, 20 or even 30 years ago.

GoodRX and CVS Caremark partner to offer discounted prescriptions

As part of the program, eligible Caremark members who carry commercial insurance will have GoodRX’s discounted pricing applied automatically to their prescription purchases.

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

artificial intelligence healthcare providers legal

3 AI to-do’s for legally aware healthcare providers

Healthcare providers might be the most underrated of all AI stakeholders. Never mind that close to half of 200 CEOs surveyed believe healthcare is the field in which AI is likely to make the most transformative contribution.

Business Intelligence

Consolidation of physician practices proceeds apace, corporatizing medicine one acquisition at a time

Investor-bought PCPs carry on like nothing much has changed—with caveats

12 of the top technology vendors serving children’s hospitals

Weight loss drugs are hiking employer healthcare prices, with 87% saying they expect costs to only go up

Former healthcare CEO sentenced to 5 years in prison for role in $212M fraud conspiracy