Healthcare

SmartPlanet columnist C.C. Sullivan assesses the trend toward high-tech, high-touch healthcare architecture. It's a growing market that's getting greener, say top firms, with some of the biggest...

1 | November 10, 2011 4:21am | By C.C. Sullivan

Tukey has a new boom in health tourism -- moustache transplantation.

1 | May 8, 2013 4:37am | By Charlie Osborne

"The Morning Briefing" is SmartPlanet's daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we're reading about innovation in healthcare.

3 | December 14, 2012 12:58am | By Charlie Osborne

The timeframe of the Obama administration's experiments with controlling healthcare costs drew disbelief from congressional lawmakers concerned about higher costs.

2 | March 21, 2013 1:05pm | By Janet Fang

What do the stock market and brain trauma treatment have in common? Allow me to explain.

Sponsored | May 6, 2013 5:54am | By Charlie Schick

The majority of healthcare assistants in the U.K. want to see tougher regulations in place, according to a survey.

April 11, 2013 6:56am | By Charlie Osborne

Bostech CEO Brad Bostic wants to bring cloud computing and CRM software to the healthcare business. It could be a matter of life or death.

1 | February 8, 2012 10:52am | By Andrew Nusca

A new report suggests that the healthcare analytics market may be worth $10.8 billion by 2017.

2 | December 4, 2012 4:20am | By Charlie Osborne

The new joint venture has upgrades to bolster its offering in a field for which -- in the U.S., anyway -- interest is growing.

2 | January 30, 2013 10:32am | By Andrew Nusca

Hospitals are getting smarter, faster, and more efficient. But can technology get out of a doctor's way when caring for a patient? Siemens Healthcare's Luis Castillo weighs in.

5 | August 5, 2010 3:00am | By Andrew Nusca

IBM and Aetna subsidiary ActiveHealth will roll out an on-demand clinical decision support suite aimed at medical practices, hospitals and government healthcare providers.

August 4, 2010 9:01pm | By Larry Dignan

"The Morning Briefing" is SmartPlanet's daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we're reading about healthcare systems worldwide.

November 30, 2012 1:13am | By Charlie Osborne

A recent project to retrofit low-income housing produced an unforeseen result: emergency room visits among residents who were helped fell by 67 percent.

11 | December 7, 2012 5:32am | By David Worthington

A new survey suggests that financial advisors who discuss healthcare in retirement are more likely to keep their clients.

3 | October 29, 2012 9:39am | By Charlie Osborne

In the last four years, the size of the workforce has barely grown. Blame demographics, say two economists.

45 | May 11, 2013 10:56am | By Joe McKendrick

GlaxoSmithKline will make raw data underlying its clinical trials available to researchers. Can this commitment to openness restore trust in the pharmaceutical industry?

1 | October 16, 2012 10:43pm | By Janet Fang

Physicians will soon have a new tool to fight cancer: big data.

March 27, 2013 1:08pm | By Tyler Falk

The companies completed their joint venture agreement, receiving regulatory approval to form a new company that combines Microsoft's data platforms with GE's clinical applications.

2 | June 7, 2012 10:19pm | By Janet Fang

Patient care may be taking an interesting turn as doctors can now treat you through a mobile robot.

1 | May 7, 2013 5:27am | By Charlie Osborne

Now that patents are expiring on blockbuster drugs, their prices are rising faster than ever as drugmakers scramble to make as much money as possible before generics drive prices down.

7 | March 25, 2011 12:36pm | By Janet Fang