healthcare costs

Garner Health helps employers shift from reacting to healthcare issues to proactively managing them. Kirk Czonstka, SVP of strategic alliances, says the right data can dramatically improve how healthcare costs are controlled.

The companies position the acquisition as a way to reduce costs for patients and improve the financial health of provider organizations.

This week Accenture published the results from its annual Accenture Technology Vision 2015 survey, which includes responses from more than 1,000 executives in developed and developing markets across various industries, including more than 100 from the life sciences.

In the past 10 years, healthcare reforms and new technology have managed to slow the growth of healthcare spending in the United States, but not to halt it or reverse the trend, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute (HRI).

Castlight Health, which went public earlier this year, inked deals with 26 more employers during the second quarter, including new deals with six Fortune 500 companies like Google, Sprint, The Kellogg Company, and Texas Instruments.