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Humana said it will buy the large hospice pharmacy and prescription benefit manager Enclara Healthcare for an undisclosed sum as the health insurer broadens its business of providing outpatient medical care for seniors.

Amazon’s PillPack is working with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts to integrate pharmacy services in the insurer’s app and website in what could be a boon of new customers for the online pharmacy.

There are very few things that tech giants Apple and Google can’t accomplish. Transforming healthcare is one of those things.

A veteran international healthcare executive, consultant and researcher has stunning insights on breast cancer, hepatitis, the lack of women in high managerial positions and much else.

Foods have been found to reduce bacteria and stave off illness, but this has been in the laboratory, not necessarily in the gut, respiratory tract, urinary tract, or skin.

Exercise is an important intervention to address medical illness–and loneliness–for senior citizens.

On the whole, however, PDPRA’s impact on the pharmaceutical industry is not nearly as potentially significant and punitive in terms of price controls as H.R. 3 would be if it became law.

Is it exploitative or resourceful to make use of the disparity between high-income countries like the US and middle-income countries like the Philippines and Mexico?

At the eighth annual Forbes Healthcare Summit, the Epic founder talked about the current landscape for standardizing patient information including potential parallels to Facebook users’ jeopardized data.

The pace and scope of change we saw in 2019 – especially by way of the innovations seen in the health tech, retail and payer sectors – will only accelerate in 2020, foretelling the most disruptive year in healthcare since the passage of the Affordable …