Universal Health 2030 Solving Complex Health System Problems
May 2018 Yahoonews;A class-action lawsuit has been filed against a Washington hospital where a nurse allegedly exposed thousands of patients to hepatitis C. The lawsuit, which is the second filed against MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital over an outbreak of hepatitis C, accuses the hospital and its parent company, MultiCare Health …
Read More »Zimbabwe sacks thousands of striking nurses
April 2018 Dailynation; Zimbabwe has fired all nurses who were on strike to demand higher salaries, in a hardline response to growing labour arrest by the country’s new leadership . Several thousand nurses were sacked in a terse statement issued on Tuesday evening by Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, who accused the strikers …
Read More »Fix information gaps in health-care system
April 2018 thestar; I keep hearing how Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Big Data will revolutionize health care. While we look to the future, let’s not ignore the technological challenges facing the industry today — specifically, inefficiencies in existing processes and technologies. For example, we confuse care quality with how much …
Read More »South Africa: Gauteng Health must explain why doctors not paid overtime – DA
April 2018 IOL; The Gauteng health department needs to explain urgently why doctors are being short-paid and rectify this as soon as possible, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday. Many doctors at Gauteng state hospitals had not been paid for overtime and had been told that the Gauteng health department …
Read More »GSK buys out Novartis in $13 billion consumer healthcare shake-up
March 2018 BusinessDaily; GlaxoSmithKline is buying Novartis out of their consumer healthcare joint venture for $13 billion, taking full control of products including Sensodyne toothpaste, Panadol headache tablets, muscle gel Voltaren, and Nicotinell patches. GSK’s biggest move since Emma Walmsley became chief executive last year follows the British drugmaker’s decision last …
Read More »Amazon, JPMorgan, Berkshire Are Creating a Health Care Company That’s ‘Free From Profit-Making Incentives’
February 2018 time;Amazon is diving into health care, teaming up with Warren Buffett’sBerkshire Hathaway and the New York bank JPMorgan Chase, to create a company that helps their U.S. employees find quality care “at a reasonable cost.” The leaders of each company, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Buffet, and JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon, offered …
Read More »USA:Health care costs are still a crushing problem
January 2018 Yahoonews; Andrew Luccock pays about $1,700 per month for health insurance for his family of 5—and still expects to pay more than $25,000 out-of-pocket this year for medical care. That will total around $45,000 for premiums and uncovered expenses in 2018–on top of a similar outlay last year. “I’m …
Read More »USA:Oscar Health expects to generate $1 billion in revenue and sign up 250,000 members in 2018
December 2017 Yahoonews; Despite repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate this week, health insurance startup Oscar Health expects to gain to pull in nearly $1 billion in revenue and enroll a quarter of a million members in 2018. That’s quite a feat for the insurance company meant for …
Read More »USA:’Obamacare’ surprise: Strong showing as nearly 9M sign up
December 2017 Yahoonews;In a remarkably strong show of consumer demand, nearly 9 million people signed up for “Obamacare” next year, as government numbers out Thursday proved predictions of its collapse wrong yet again. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said more than 8.8 million people have signed up in …
Read More »USA: Health nominee reaped big earnings from drug industry tenure
November 2017 phillytrib; Newly disclosed financial records show that President Donald Trump’s nominee to become Health and Human Services secretary reaped big earnings during his tenure as a top pharmaceutical executive. As a top drug industry veteran from 2007 to 2017, former Eli Lilly and Co. executive Alex Azar built …
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