#NowTrending: This Week’s MedTech News »

10 Jul, 2015

News Uncategorized

PillPack launches app, Aetna acquires Humana to form insurance mega-giant, and more

#NowTrending: This Week’s MedTech News »

9 Jan, 2015

News

Image via savings wiki. We bring you this week's healthcare and medtech trends, from Boston and beyond: 1. There's $75 Million Up for Grabs Connecticut-based HealthInvest Equity Partners filed with the SEC this week, creating a new $75 million investment fund specifically for health companies. Where are they looking to invest? There's a…

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2 Jan, 2015

News

What's in a FitBit? controversy, it turns out. Photo via FitBit Flex wiki. We bring you this week's healthcare and medtech trends, from Boston and beyond: 1. Santa Claus Came to Town... With FitBits FitBit's sales numbers jumped this season as people rushed to buy the newest version of the activity tracker…

Consolidation & Transparency: A Look at Massachusetts’ Health Policy »

18 Dec, 2014

Events News

A panel discussed the consolidation of healthcare providers at this year's MAHP health policy conference. Photo by Abram Guerra. Hundreds of attendees came to the Seaport Hotel on Friday, December 5th for the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans' thirteenth annual Health Policy Conference. The leading voice for Massachusetts payers on issues…

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21 Nov, 2014

News

We bring you this week’s healthcare and medtech trends, in Boston and beyond: Photo via CVS wiki. 1. CVS Launches a Boston Innovation Lab Your friendly neighborhood CVS may be on it's way to disrupting healthcare, according to an announcement from the pharmacy this week. The CVS Health Digital Innovation Lab…

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14 Nov, 2014

News

We bring you this week’s healthcare and medtech trends, in Boston and beyond: 1. Massachusetts Distributed $59,000,000 for Healthcare Improvement The Health Policy Commission just awarded 20 individual hospitals and 5 joint hospital partnerships in Massachusetts between $1 million and $4 million each to support community-based partnerships and the use of emerging digital health technologies. We like…

For Richer or Poorer: Concierge Medicine »

15 Aug, 2014

Opinion/Editorial Uncategorized

Who's interested in using concierge medicine? Everyone, according to Dr. Stephen Schimpff. Photo from ZweenaHealth. Is concierge medicine for everyone or is it just for the rich, the 1%? Most people assume it is for the elite and cannot be afforded by the common man, the masses. That is unfortunate because in many…

The Price of Admission »

7 Mar, 2014

Opinion/Editorial

The thought process in this scenario is that there is no pre-existing relationship and that, therefore, the only deciding factor can be price. But there is a relationship. And that relationship is called the referral.