As consumers take on more responsibility for their healthcare bills and expect on-demand services from mobile devices, providers and payers need to up their game. Consumer experience with healthcare organizations will extend to how they pay for services and the ease with which they handle growing financial responsibilities with a variety of healthcare organizations, according… Read More »
If you’re on Instagram or if you’ve taken the New York City subway lately, chances are you’ve heard of Hims, the men’s health and wellness company with a penchant for advertisements featuring suggestive cacti and eggplants against pastel backgrounds. The web-based startup targets the young male demographic with skincare products, multivitamins, and erectile dysfunction medications. In January, just a few… Read More »
For some, peace and introspection can help manifest an entire career change or business endeavor. So says Jon Staff, co-author of “How To Get Away: Finding Balance In Our Overworked,Overcrowded, Always-on World” (Ramble Press) and co-founder of Getaway. Through this Brooklyn-based business, customers rent tiny, back-to-nature, modern cabins located in woodsy outposts within two hours… Read More »
The Topol Review explores how to prepare the healthcare workforce, through education and training, to deliver the digital future.Getty This morning, The Topol Review was announced, detailing how we should prepare the NHS clinical workforce to deliver healthcare’s digital future. Led by California-based cardiologist, geneticist, and digital medicine researcher, Dr Eric Topol, the review has been… Read More »
As you’re here, reading this, you know that your entire body and mind are craving some rest from the incessant screen exposure, annoying notifications constantly buzzing from your phone, and almost constant communication via social media. So much noise, and yet, so little real bonding or connecting. Since more people are switching to fully-digital careers,… Read More »
All the excesses of my own childhood are, of course, available on eBay, priced for the vintage market. There are the accessories for the 1960s Thingmaker, from Mattel, with its metal molds to be poured full of plastigoop (I can smell it now) and cooked to a nice soft solid texture on the square little… Read More »