Healthcare

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This July, the NYPD will be releasing invisible, odorless, nontoxic gases to better understand how contaminants will disperse in accidents and attacks.

5 | May 5, 2013 10:46pm | By Janet Fang

Bean plant leaves won't bite bed bugs back, but they do impale the pests though their feet. Artificial leaves could become effective traps.

2 | April 9, 2013 7:25pm | By David Worthington