The US spends 25 percent of all health care costs on administration, a big part of which involves billing for medical services. To realize savings requires standardizing and digitizing billing.

Childers is a surgical oncologist at the University of Washington and directs the Payment and Outcomes Research Lab. Tsai is a general and gastrointestinal surgeon and medical director for health ...

The US health care system significantly contributes to climate change while increasingly facing its adverse consequences. Despite this dual challenge, policy efforts to incentivize carbon reduction ...

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The Lifenet network, built by medical technology company Stryker, is a system emergency crews use to transmit a patient’s electrocardiogram to a receiving hospital while an ambulance is still en route ...