Consumer Driven Health Care

The price-negotiation strategy encourages doctors and insurers to offer more moderate (and reasonable) rates for medical bills.

Fitbit is the latest wearable tech company putting greater focus on the corporate wellness market.

During the opening keynote of the recent NextGen Growth & Leadership Summit in Nashville, Nelson Griswold warned that the benefits industry underestimates the threat of single-payer at its own peril.

Microsoft is releasing a service to help health-care companies move vast amounts of patient data to its cloud and connect with other related systems.

Companies are aggregating data to create patient "risk scores," which are then used to identify patients in certain risk categories.

The proliferation of telemedicine companies and their array of products and services necessitates a national, standardized means of assuring quality, patient safety, and competent care.