This week's Innovation Partners BioBlog looks at some of the business aspects of the healthcare industry. Walmart reportedly took baby steps towards the acquisition of insurer Humana last month, while Aetna has agreed to pass drug discounts on to patients, a move hailed by many as a positive step. Discussions around cancer care models, fee ...

This week’s Innovation Partners BioBlog takes a look at the legislation moving through the government now to fund research, treatment and more. Senator Warren is proposing additional subsidies for healthcare insurance, while the new budget bill increases funding for research, drug treatment and mental healthcare. These stories and more in this week’s BioBlog. Medical Research, ...

This week’s BioBlog focuses on cancer - new drugs, advances in diagnosis and disease tracking, and improvement in healthcare and treatment access for patients. Medicare has agreed to pay for important testing to match drugs to patients with advanced cancer, and Blue Cross is launching new projects aimed at reducing disparities in healthcare due to ...

Innovation is all around us, and this week’s BioBlog from Innovation Partners examines innovation in all its forms. Two women entrepreneurs are working to develop an at-home cervical cancer screening test that will make it easier for women to test for the deadly disease, while an at-home test for breast cancer was recently approved by ...

Change is coming - whether you like it or not. That’s the gist of HHS Secretary Alex Azar’s statement to a group of hospital executives. Azar is pushing for changes to pricing transparency and other factors affecting the cost of healthcare. Meanwhile, United Healthcare, responding to consumer outcry, will give back much of the cost ...

This week, Innovation Partners’ BioBlog takes a look at the hidden profits in the prescription drug supply chain and Roche’s acquisition of Flatiron, a data firm backed by Google that has made serious inroads into oncology care. An alliance formed by several groups will effectively cover 7 million employees’ healthcare insurance, and more are all ...

This week’s Innovation Partners BioBlog features updates on the White House’s new budget and proposed changes to reimbursement. Anthem backtracks on a controversial decision aimed at reducing emergency room visit. New drugs reach the market, including drugs to treat prostate cancer and more. President’s Budget Proposes Changes to Physician Reimbursement The White House released the ...

What actually causes the high cost of oncology care and other healthcare needs? Is it the changing, uncertain realm of federal regulation or other market forces? An article in this week’s BioBlog from Forbes examines economic forces that may be at work in the market changing the costs of healthcare. ASCO released its clinical pathways ...

In this week’s Innovation Partners BioBlog, we bring you the latest from the world of healthcare. A new head of Health and Human Services was sworn in this week with the Trump Administration promising once again to reduce drug prices. Three global companies joined forces to build their own health insurance plan for over one ...

This week’s Innovation Partners BioBlog is focused on the pharmaceutical industry. Attention now turns to the development of new antibiotics to address antimicrobial resistance, as well as to new and improved treatments for various types of cancer. This and more in the BioBlog. Pharmaceutical Companies Must Do More To Combat Antimicrobial Resistance, Develop New Antibiotics, ...