Restoring Patients’ Confidence in Elective Health Care
A new consumer sentiment survey reveals concrete steps that health care providers can take to accelerate patients’ return.
A new consumer sentiment survey reveals concrete steps that health care providers can take to accelerate patients’ return.
Preparing Localities for Action Against Novel Coronavirus (PLAN) is a scenario-planning tool that identifies potential US supply and demand imbalances down to the county level.
In their response to COVID-19, pharma and medtech companies have been true to their purpose. They now face questions that go beyond addressing the virus itself.
As countries begin to lift restrictions on social interaction, effective deployment of contact tracing will be a critical weapon in the battle to contain COVID-19. But it won’t succeed without privacy safeguards and the right incentives for adoption.
A recent analysis shows disturbing variations in the use of a key diagnostic for lung cancer patients. Adopting new protocols and tools can lead to better care.
The revolution has come to health care. Artificial intelligence has major repercussions for players across the industry—as well as for new-technology entrants and consumers.
Extracting value from service-based businesses requires a different approach than the traditional focus on product sales.
Companies can use their clinical knowledge, digital platforms, and access to data to develop profitable portfolios of value-added services.
As the current crisis demonstrates, biopharma and medtech companies need to safeguard their networks against unanticipated disruptions. Here’s how.
A much more rigorous approach to value creation lets investor-held medtech firms win in the face of price erosion and other challenges.
Hospitals are increasingly buying medtech products and services less on the basis of initial purchase price and more on the total value they create—for patients, clinical staff, and society.
Although women make up the majority of health care employees, men still dominate the corner office. Here are six ways to give women a fair shot at the top.
A big gap in our overall testing capability remains unfilled—the ability to tell people quickly and reliably if they have been infected.
A 12- to 18-month timeline assumes that a vaccine progresses through all the various stages of testing without encountering significant issues.
There are positive signs of potential benefits across multiple drug classes and candidates.
Understanding how each new test works, what it can and cannot do, and when and under what circumstances it should be used is critical to avoiding confusion and misapplication.
We need better testing to get people treated and then get companies back to work.
