Sentences with phrase «on healthcare companies»

And this may cause some investors to turn bearish on healthcare companies in the near term.

Statement from Forecast the Facts on healthcare companies distancing themselves from the Heartland Institute:

From its second fund, it bet on healthcare companies such as Cloudnine Hospitals, Meditrina Hospitals and Mewar Hospital.

Glenview's Larry Robbins also lost more than $ 23 million in his hedge fund, as his pro-Obamacare bets on healthcare companies turned sour: Hospital Corporation of America (hca) stock dropped 11 %, losing him $ 127 million; and Tenet Healthcare (thc) stock plummeted 25 %, taking another $ 90 million from Glenview's portfolio.

Not exact matches

This dynamic was in play on Tuesday, with shares of managed healthcare companies and pharmacy providers falling.

The company's foray into healthcare wearables opened the door to multiple relationships with healthcare companies, and provided Nokia with a «new perspective» on the healthcare space, Buvac said.

The authors recommend that technologists and healthcare robotic companies marketing their wares be more transparent about what their robots can and can't do, and properly educate medical workers on how to use them.

The combination of CVS Health, the seventh - biggest company in the U.S. by revenue, with Aetna (No. 43 on the Fortune 500) would, if it were to go through, create a corporate behemoth with $ 240 billion in annual revenue across a wide swath of the healthcare continuum, from retail pharmacy and benefit management to insurance.

This two - day activity - filled event includes a Day 1 hands - on workshop to continue the company's efforts in building and expanding end - user base among medical and dental healthcare providers, but also provide organizations with how - tos to become early adopter and users of 3D printing and bio-printing technologies.

Today, companies spend $ 700 billion a year on employee healthcare, or $ 13,000 per worker.

No one who has seen the guy throwing up devil horns on Fast N» Loud would expect him to be the head of a home - healthcare company — easily the least likely part of his rock»n' roll portfolio.

The company, however, won cost savings through changes in healthcare plans and limits on post-retirement health benefits.

But Trump's picks to head the U.S. health department and its top regulator on Tuesday, along with his recent softening on some aspects of the existing law, is a sign to some sector insiders that instead of chaos, an orderly transition of up to three years to replace it with a plan that healthcare companies actually want could be in store.

The CWA said on Saturday that Verizon has not budged from its original proposal which they have said would increase workers» healthcare costs by thousands of dollars, eliminate job security and remove any restrictions on the company's right to contract out or offshore union jobs.

Activist hedge fund investor and recent Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx) board appointee Bill Ackman on Wednesday slammed the company's steep drug price hikes in testimony before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, going so far as to say the cost bumps «contributed to healthcare inflation and called into question the company's commitment to the patients it serves.»

On average, a broker who connects a small business with a healthcare provider collects between 4 and 8 percent of the company's health premiums — fees that translate to several hundred dollars or more per employee per year, and keep coming in for as long as the business customer continues to maintain coverage.

Certain themes emerge, in Google's 2016 report, on how the company is fighting bad ads and scammers: Weight - loss, payday loans, tabloid cloaking, fake news, pharmaceuticals and other healthcare products, plus gambling come up time and again.

«The U.S. healthcare industry has been and continues to be the most inefficient industry on the planet,» says Dean Stephens, CEO of health - tech company Healthline, a health - information site with millions of monthly visitors.

«We plan to double down on those companies that actually understand that the female healthcare market is a large and expanding market,» Vosmek says.

Fortune spoke with 25 - year pharmaceutical vet Ramona Sequeira, president of Takeda's U.S. business unit since 2015, on the challenges of adapting an international pharma company to the U.S. healthcare and reimbursement system and the firm's America - centric business plans.

Today, at 2 p.m. Eastern, the President will sign the 21st Century Cures Act — approved by the Senate on Dec. 7 by a vote of 94 - to - 5, overwhelmingly passed by the House the week before, and seemingly supported by every pharma company, medical institution, healthcare advocate and their mothers.

LONDON, March 23 - GlaxoSmithKline has withdrawn from the race to buy Pfizer's consumer healthcare business, the British company said on Friday, endangering an auction the U.S. drugmaker hoped would bring in as much as $ 20 billion.

Chinese healthcare companies have capitalized on the healthy market and have improved their technology and research and development chops, Leung added.

PARIS, April 17 - French healthcare group Sanofi is in exclusive talks to sell its Zentiva European generics drugs arm to private equity firm Advent International for 1.9 billion euros, the companies said on Tuesday.

As companies continue to seek new ways to cut back on healthcare costs, wellness programs have become quite pervasive.

Diversified healthcare company Abbott Laboratories on Friday agreed to buy Alere for about $ 4.48 billion, ending a prolonged legal battle over its plan to buy the diagnostic - testing company.

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Carlyle has a long track record of investing in healthcare companies and has been seeking to cash out on some of them this year.

The company said it had an «incredible team» of experts in health and fitness and was talking to medical institutions, healthcare and industry experts on ways to deliver its services.

Apple's push into healthcare may have included buying a popular startup that runs on - site medical clinics for companies.

The main reasons the business community should stand on the side of clean energy innovation are that it will, in the long run, save companies money, provide better energy security, reduce healthcare costs, and reduce costs associated with having to adapt to a warmer climate.

Besides establishing UnitedHealth as the leading insurer for big companies, Hemsley made big bets on what he considered the future for growth and profits, healthcare services.

Rising stock markets have been very generous to the shareholders of public healthcare companies, but that's not something they can count on going forward.

Chunyu, a Chinese mobile healthcare app company that connects patients and doctors, raised $ 50 million from China International Capital Corporation (CICC), Rushan Venture Capital under DunAn Holding Group, Pavilion Capital run by Temasek, and BlueRun Ventures, and HealthEdge, a provider of a cloud - based or on - site integrated financial, administrative and clinical software platform for healthcare payers focusing on medical claims and benefits management brought in $ 30 million

Although the companies said their focus mainly would be on providing improved healthcare for their own U.S. workers, which total nearly 1 million, the move immediately triggered speculation that any solutions they develop could spread throughout the industry.

On a side note, the company is mulling a potential sale of its consumer healthcare business, which some believe could fetch as much as $ 20 billion.

Currently, she is reporting on how tech companies are developing digital health tools and their implications for the healthcare industry, medical practice and consumers.

The three said they would start «an independent company that is free from profit - making incentives and constraints» and that its early focus «will be on technology solutions» that would provide «simplified, high - quality and transparent healthcare at a reasonable cost.»

But for Mr Fitzgibbon, the story is much greater than a simple focus on lowering costs and smoothing out complexity within the many - layered healthcare system, which includes pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies, large medical groups and insurers.

The new venture probably won't affect the polarized healthcare debate in Washington, but could alter the dynamics of the issue down the line if the companies come up with some innovative ideas, said Neil Trautwein, a vice president at the National Retail Federation trade group who lobbies Congress on healthcare issues.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Wall Street fell on Monday as healthcare stocks slid and investors worried about rising costs for companies as oil prices rose, although the major indexes eked out a gain in April to snap a two - month losing streak.

James has more than five years of experience advising both Fortune 50 and pre-revenue healthcare and biotech companies on their sales and marketing strategy.

He leverages these diverse experiences to guide companies in the portfolio in their growth, focusing specifically on those in healthcare and biotech.

If you're looking for a viable healthcare company to add to your portfolio, you might want to do your research on Vanda Pharmaceuticals.

Aspect's second fund was raised, Gouw says, on the strength of the ForeScout exit and the higher valuations its other portfolio companies have reached, including Cato Networks, Crew, Exabeam and The Muse, as well as healthcare startup Vida and wellness video company Grokker.

But for those who take the broader view, recognizing both that even best - in - class healthcare businesses like Abbott Laboratories and Johnson & Johnson have underperformed for years on end and that also choose to analyze the company itself, GlaxoSmithKline looks more promising than its track record of investment performance would suggest.

With the latest funding, Amino will continue on its quest to becoming «the single source of truth for American healthcare,» as the company says, meaning pulling together enough data from insurance claims to create a comprehensive and trusted source of information about healthcare access, cost and quality.

Susan primarily focuses on B2B software and mission critical business services companies that operate across a variety of verticals (e.g. HR technology, education technology, healthcare technology).

About Centene Corporation Centene Corporation, a Fortune 100 company, is a diversified, multi-national healthcare enterprise that provides a portfolio of services to government sponsored and commercial healthcare programs, focusing on under - insured and uninsured individuals.

The Cupertino company plans to open healthcare clinics that will rely heavily on its technology.