Amazon to Offer Telehealth Service to Other U.S. Firms This Summer

By: Sebastian Herrera, Dave Sebastian and Sarah Krousse Amazon to Offer Telehealth Service to Other U.S. Firms This Summer Amazon . com Inc. is expanding its telehealth service nationwide and opening it to other companies, the latest signal of the e-commerce giant’s continued ambitions in healthcare. Amazon said it has started to offer its Amazon […]

COVID-19’S LASTING EFFECTS ON MENTAL HEALTH????FOR GOOD AND BAD

By: John McCormick , Feb 21 2021 COVID-19’S LASTING EFFECTS ON MENTAL HEALTH????FOR GOOD AND BAD In five to 10 years I think every employer will have to offer resources to support folks’ mental health. Millennials and Gen Z are going to demand it. Before the pandemic we knew that one in two 18-year-olds had […]

When Covid-19 Hit, Mayo Clinic Had to Rethink Its Technology

By: John McCormick , Feb 21 2021 When Covid-19 Hit, Mayo Clinic Had to Rethink Its Technology Mayo Clinic, like many health providers, has been pushed to its limits by the Covid-19 pandemic. Its intensive-care units were often filled to or near capacity in 2020. And while doctors throughout the health system rushed to find […]

Artificial Intelligence Will Define Google’s Future. For Now, It’s a Management Challenge

By: Rob Copeland and Parmy Oslon , Jan 26 2021 Artificial Intelligence Will Define Google’s Future. For Now, It’s a Management Challenge. Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Sundar Pichai has bet big on artificial intelligence as central to the company’s future, investing billions of dollars to embed the technology in the conglomerate’s disparate divisions. Now, it […]

Cancer Death Rate in U.S. Falls by Largest Yearly Amount on Record

By: Brianna Abbott, Jan 12 2021 Cancer Death Rate in U.S. Falls by Largest Yearly Amount on Record The death rate from cancer in the U.S. dropped 2.4% from 2017 to 2018, the biggest single-year decline on record and a sign of the impact of new treatments on lung cancer especially, the American Cancer Society […]

How to Care for Aging Parents When You Can’t Be There

By: Julie Jargon Jan 9, 2021 How to Care for Aging Parents When You Can’t Be There When Corey Spiegel’s 75-year-old mother fell and broke her hip and wrist in November and needed emergency surgery, Ms. Spiegel scrambled to figure out how to transport her home from rehab. She interviewed caregivers over FaceTime and arranged for […]

Why Amazon, JPMorgan, Berkshire Venture Collapsed: ‘Health Care Was Too Big a Problem’

By: Sebastian Herrera, Jan 8, 2021 Why the Amazon, JPMorgan, Berkshire Venture Collapsed: ‘Health Care Was Too Big a Problem’ Amazon.com Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. set out three years ago to join and transform health care. Instead, they struggled to solve even fundamental challenges, such as understanding what some kinds […]

Loblaw among gro­cers qui­etly mor­ph­ing into tech com­pa­nies

By: Aleksandra Sagan, Jan 4, 2021 Loblaw among gro­cers qui­etly mor­ph­ing into tech com­pa­nies When a Silicon Valley startup announced in November that Toronto area roads would soon host a fleet of driverless delivery trucks, it came with news of an investment from Wittington Ventures. Founded in 2019, the venture capital firm is affiliated with […]

Hackers Eye Their Next Targets, From Schools To Cars

By: Leigh Kamping-Carder and Kevin Hand, OCT. 8, 2020 Hackers Eye Their Next Targets, From Schools To Cars Hackers will tell you that just about anything with software and an internet connection can get hacked. The next decade will test how much that is true, and the challenge it poses to everyday life. Security experts […]