Highmark layoffs hit Harrisburg area and Pittsburgh
Highmark Health Solutions laid off 52 people this week, with 21 occurring at the Higmark operation in East Pennsboro Township in Cumberland County, and a similar amount occurring in Pittsburgh. …
Telemedicine Comes to Georgia College Campus
Illustrating once again that the world of college education is fertile ground for deployment of cutting-edge healthcare technologies and telemedicine, one college campus in Georgia is about to experience the …
3D Printing in Healthcare
No matter how much precision and care the prosthetics experts at Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) put into crafting an accurate prosthetic leg for one healthy, young female patient, …
Salesforce survey: Millennials want telehealth and mobile apps
Just ahead of the closing enrollment period for Obamacare, tech behemoth Salesforce released a report titled “The State of the Connected Patient 2015,” detailing the potentially huge shift in how …
Telemedicine startup Avizia raises $4M to expand staff, explore acquisitions
Just a couple of months after it acquired Emerge.MD, telemedicine startup Avizia has raised fresh capital for an aggressive expansion plan this year. It raised $4 million, according to a …
7 ways tech can help fix the US healthcare system
From R&D to patient care, technology has the opportunity to drastically improve the US healthcare system. Here are seven important ways it can happen. It’s no secret that the US …
How Cloud Computing is Changing the Health Care IT Industry
Cloud-based services are steadily becoming more widely adopted by healthcare organizations. The past year alone has seen a surge of interest regarding the potential of cloud computing with many players …
Diabetes Patients Using Mobile Reports Better Health Conditions
In a recent survey done on American Adults by digital health agency Klick Health says diabetes patients using digital tools to manage their health feel much better. A Survey Sampling …