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Interview: Chad Holmes, Red Hat Mobile: Mobile apps can save operators time and money

Mobile app technology has the potential to transform the way healthcare information is recorded, stored and shared - saving time and money and improving patient care. This rapidly growing field can cover everything from getting data from patients and to caregivers, and monitoring and suggesting treatment, to simply helping people navigate hospital sites. We speak to Chad Holmes, senior mobile solutions architect and healthcare sector specialist with US-based Red Hat Mobile which commissioned a survey about mobile app use.
November 22, 2016

INTERVIEW: Kaushik Sen, CEO, Healthspring, India

Can you make money out of a primary care network in India? There is no question that, generally, primary healthcare in India is "broken". Kaushik Sen, CEO of Mumbai-based Healthspring thinks he has the answer - a new primary care network. But can it ever turn a profit and if so how? We talk to Sen about his success to date, and plans for the future.
October 24, 2016

The rise and rise of digital primary care

A battle is being fought over England’s 340 million annual GP consultations. As waiting lists rise in the NHS, patients are flowing to a host of digital upstarts. Competition is fierce, prices are low and no one seems to like each other very much! We uncover the story of their race to get ahead.
October 21, 2016

eHealth – changing the role of the insurer – and nudging the insured to get healthy

The health insurance industry faces revolutionary change. eHealth is moving healthcare down the acuity curve, personalising treatment and bringing a new generation of wellness treatments online through mHealth apps. This, in turn, creates data, data that insurers are eager to get their hands on. They increasingly are, by creating their own bespoke apps or partnering with aggregators or popular wellness apps. But, adapting their business models to the data-driven economy, is moving insurers from a passive to an active role in people’s health, and raising tensions with consumer interests.
August 22, 2016

Interview: Andrew Wyatt, COO, and Corrina Kane, head of product marketing, Lumeon

Care Pathway Management (CPM) software administers health systems, connects data and orchestrates the patient’s journey using predetermined and rigorously analysed rules. It claims to improve clinical capacity and patient satisfaction, whilst slashing paperwork and billing overheads. Lumeon is a leader in this field. It’s working with many of the UK’s top commercial operators and close to signing with the NHS directly. Last week, it launched its own care pathway marketplace. Lumeon is alternatively, a revolutionary pioneer, or a jumped-up admin system. We investigate.
August 4, 2016

Interview: Ignacio Riesgo, independent healthcare consultant

We speak to Ignacio Riesgo, previously a healthcare leader at PwC in Madrid, and currently an independent advisor to both public and private providers. Riesgo muses on the industrialization of healthcare in his latest book Médicos o robots: La medicina que viene (Rasche).
August 2, 2016
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