10 Reasons Why Your Doctor Won't Text You

10 Reasons Why Your Doctor Won't Text You

When it comes to what patients want from eCare technologies and what doctors provide, there is a big gap. For example,  twenty-seven percent said their doctor had a nurse-manned advice line, but only 14% said it was available 24/7. Thirteen percent said their physician had evening and weekend hours, while another 37% said they wanted that service. Despite the noise, most docs are not buying into the telehype. Why?

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The "Drop Out Club" Was Created to Help Doctors Network In This Challenging Environment

The "Drop Out Club" Was Created to Help Doctors Network In This Challenging Environment

In 1999, A group of six former medical school classmates began to meet routinely to catch up over drinks. The catch was that each of them had left medicine to pursue alternate careers. Fast forward 16 years and that group has expanded to include over 23,000 members in 102 countries. The group is called The Drop Out Club. This platform allows doctors to stay in touch while also providing tools to be successful outside of practicing medicine.

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The 4 Phases of Physician Entrepreneurship Development

The 4 Phases of Physician Entrepreneurship Development

Physician entrepreneurship describes the pursuit of opportunity using scarce resources with the goal of creating user defined value through the deployment and harvesting of biomedical and care innovation. Clinicians are becoming interested for many reasons and they characteristically go through defined stages of their physician entrepreneurship career progression.

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10 Reasons Why Digital Health Startups Fail

10 Reasons Why Digital Health Startups Fail

Startups, in general, fail for many reasons. One observer mentioned his top 5 reasons as 1) lack of capital, 2) expanding too soon, 3) heavy reliance on debt, 4) poor strategy, and 5) poor business model and plan.

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UnitedHealth to Acquire Workers' Compensation Benefits Company Helios for $1.6B

UnitedHealth to Acquire Workers' Compensation Benefits Company Helios for $1.6B

UnitedHealth is on the verge of acquiring Helios, who provides workers' compensation and pharmacy benefit management to some of the largest U.S. insurers and third-party administrators. It manages more than 7 million prescriptions annually.

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