Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...People are increasingly turning to TikTok, Instagram and other social media platforms for medical advice and information, partly driven by a lack of direct access to healthcare professionals and a desire...
...The partnership entails no “financial commitment on either end”, said Kimberly Powell, vice-president of healthcare at Nvidia....
...From customer service chatbots to data migration and overhauling research and development in healthcare, Schweizer said BCG is helping companies use AI to cut costs and increase productivity....
...The technology investor tapped his sprawling nine-acre estate in Woodside, California, for cash in December 2019, at a time when his company’s fortunes were cracking under the weight of a failed WeWork IPO...
...Seventy per cent of healthcare companies expect M&A activity in healthcare to increase in 2024 after two relatively quiet years, according to a recent global survey from Jefferies....
...The US healthcare system is separated into hundreds of for-profit companies that are under increasing pressure to cut costs, which has spurred consolidation in the sector....
...A big chunk of Cigna’s earnings per share growth comes from buybacks, which is not great. But the stock is really cheap! Our next pick, Dollar Tree, is riskier....
...Companies jostling to take advantage of this shift are driving a new wave of mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare industry....
...The ebullient Jean-Charles Boisset of Burgundy arrived at Raymond in 2009, Chanel Inc bought St Supéry in 2015 and the next year the Tesserons of Ch Pontet Canet in Bordeaux bought Robin Williams’ winery...
...When Robert Wachter, chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, reflects on the extent to which healthcare jobs will be disrupted by artificial intelligence, he recalls...
...Johnson & Johnson has struck a deal to buy medical device maker Shockwave Medical for $13.1bn, as the healthcare giant puts cash to work from the spin-off of its consumer health arm to pursue acquisitions...
...It recently hired Wentworth, a former Cigna executive, as part of its plans to develop its healthcare services....
...A claim filed in a court in Los Angeles on Tuesday said the use of a “special expenses” fund of $950,000 after tax was an agreed part of his contract....
...He noted that “nation state actors” and “ransomware teams” were “locking in” on healthcare and other infrastructure. A cynic might argue that such warnings are not new....
...It’s a good growth business because basically healthcare prices go up and health insurance premiums are, you know, grow with healthcare costs. And Cigna is the cheapest of the group....
...The reshuffle comes ahead of Google’s first-quarter earnings on 25 April and its annual I/O developer conference on 14 and 15 May at its headquarters in Mountain View, California....
...One consequence, after successive rounds of consolidation, is a mooted $140bn insurance tie-up between Cigna and Humana....
...The son of Israeli immigrants to the US, Barkan was born in Massachusetts in 1983, before his parents moved to California....
...Nice, the UK’s healthcare spending watchdog, said last week that it could “accept higher than the usual maximum for assessing cost-effectiveness” of Casgevy but that it needed to collect more data on the...
...The scions of two of America’s best-known billionaire families are scrambling to mastermind one of the most complex media mergers in recent memory, as the future of the storied Paramount studio hangs in...
...In one sign that Amazon is expanding beyond the retail space, however, health plan provider Blue Shield of California announced in August that Amazon Pharmacy would start dispensing some prescription medications...
...An all-day/half-day session on AI in healthcare....
...UBS has hired Sean Lynch as a managing director for technology investment banking in California. He previously worked for Barclays....
...Blue Shield of California said it would work with other companies, including Amazon and the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company, to supply medicines to its 4.8mn customers....
...On Monday, a California jury sided with the video game maker Epic Games in its dispute with Google....
International Edition