A major health insurer and an integrated delivery system are among the latest organizations to join a blockchain collaborative aiming to bring the technology to healthcare. Cigna and Sentara Healthcare have joined with the collaborative, which is seeking to create a blockchain network with the goal of enabling healthcare companies to build, share and deploy… Read More »
By LYGEIA RICCIARDI Last week’s announcement by Aetna and Apple of their Attain “experience” designed to enable Aetna members to achieve better health using the Apple watch was the latest in a series of partnerships vying to shake up healthcare from an unconventional angle. Others include Amazon-Berkshire Hathaway-JP Morgan’s collaboration to reshape health insurance, and… Read More »
Dive Brief: Aetna, Anthem, Health Care Service Corporation, IBM and PNC Bank are teaming up to design and develop a blockchain network aimed at improving transparency and interoperability in healthcare. The goal is an inclusive blockchain network that members of multiple organizations across the healthcare ecosystem can use to securely share personal health information. Potential… Read More »
The market may be getting off to a slow start in 2019, but healthcare stocks remain strong after posting a solid 2018, ranking first among the 11 primary sectors in Standard and Poor’s 500, according to a Reuters review of ratings from Wall Street firms. Along with utilities, healthcare was the only sector to see… Read More »
Doctors are working with CT scan in hospitalGetty Remember the days where you would schedule a doctor’s appointment only to get there and wait for a couple of hours? If you had any tests done, it would take days to get results back and often you’d have to go back to the office and… Read More »