Entrepreneurs
6 Hacks for Taking Control of Your Healthcare Costs
Healthcare is a business, We need to be smart, savvy, informed shoppers.
By Rick Bates
Healthcare | Page 6
Building a Business
These Startups Are Disrupting the Healthcare Industry With Targeted Cancer Treatments
By Adam Toren
Building a Business
Diagnosing a Sick Healthcare Industry
Healthcare in the US has metastasized, threatening to take over the host economy. If ever there was a paradigm in need of entrepreneurs intent on disruption, here it is. Have at it.
By Marc Willard
Business News
How to Become a Healthcare Innovator
The healthcare industry needs startups, and startups need the healthcare industry. Are you in?
Building a Business
These Healthcare Data Companies Earn Millions by Making Employees Healthier, Saving Their Employers Boatloads of Money
Like everything else, your health information is moving online. A growing class of companies are delivering ever more personalized medical advice as a result.
Entrepreneurs
This Doctor-Entrepreneur’s Message to Busy Moms: Give Yourself Credit
Heal co-founder and chief medical officer Dr. Renee Dua juggles raising kids, seeing patients and running a startup. Here's why she says it's time to ditch the mom-guilt and quit beating yourself up.
Building a Business
How the Loss of a Child Sparked This Former Tech Exec to Start His Own Business
Phil Martie founded Nicolette in his daughter's memory to give parents of babies hospitalized in NICUs an empowered voice in their children's medical care, something he and his wife didn't feel they had when they needed it most. But will hospitals welcome his solution?
Building a Business
Republicans Win Obamacare Legal Challenge, Add to Insurer Concerns
U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer ruled that the administration cannot spend billions of dollars in federal funds to provide subsidies under Obamacare to private insurers without the approval of Congress.
By Reuters
Entrepreneurs
5 Ways Varied Job Experience Helps Your Career
Job doesn't match your degree? Fear not. It might actually help you get -- and thrive in -- the job you want.
Building a Business
Why You Need to Talk About Mental Health in the Workplace and How Technology Is Changing the Way It’s Treated
Watch four leaders in the evolving space of employee health benefits talk about the changing landscape of mental health and associated insurance benefits in this panel discussion.
Building a Business
There’s a Good Reason You Should Think About Offering Voluntary Benefits
Voluntary benefits work well alongside high-deductible health plans because they meet employees' specific needs.
By Matt Straz
Thought Leaders
Third-Party Validation Is Your Secret Weapon to Closing the Deal
Validation by third-party experts can enhance a new product/service's reputation and credibility.
By Adam Aronson
Building a Business
Launching Telehealth Benefits? Here’s What You Need to Know
These new services can save you and your employees money, but be forewarned: They're limited.
By Matt Straz
Buying a Franchise
Recovering From Cancer Surgery, This Franchisee Relied on the Benefits of Massage
Kay Hechler found massage therapy so helpful that she and her husband opened a Hand & Stone massage franchise.
By Joan Oleck
Building a Business
How One Company Is Mining Big Data to Fight Diabetes
Glooko's diabetes-management platform allows patients and doctors more information, and investors are interested.
Entrepreneurs
Is Your Wellness Program a Slave to Fads or Backed by Science?
As a leader, it's in your best interests to keep your employees healthy. Unfortunately, the glut of misinformation circulating on TV and the Internet makes it difficult to separate bunk from best practices.
By Chris Cutter
Buying a Franchise
An Immigrant-Franchisee Who Truly Built His Home Healthcare Business From Nothing
Native Jordanian Omar Bataineh knows, more than most home-grown Americans, about the value of hard work.
By Joan Oleck
Building a Business
5 Exciting Ways Health-Tech Startups Are Improving Lives
These companies are doing more than creating fitness apps -- they're improving lives in many fundamental ways.
By Zach Cutler
Buying a Franchise
How Au Bon Pain’s Executive Chef Puts Her Line Cook Experience to Good Use
Hands on doesn't even begin to describe Katherine See's job.
By Kate Taylor
Building a Business
This Health App Puts Real, Live Medical Professionals In Your Pocket
For $15 a week, Vida delivers live, one-on-one personalized medical advice from health-care pros.
Business News
Meet the Winners of Our Entrepreneur of 2014 Awards
These entrepreneurs are the best of the best.
Business Operations & Logistics
3 Industries Entrepreneurs Can Disrupt With the ‘Internet of Things’
Wireless technology presents a huge opportunity to change how we handle many everyday tasks.
Building a Business
Riding the Ups and Downs of the Small-Business Obamacare Market
A month into the launch of the federal exchanges, small-business owners report mixed results with the program.
By Kate Rogers
Business Accounting
The Largest VC Fund ($500M) Raised by Majority-Female Partners Quietly Closed in June
It launches today.
By Laura Entis
Tech
White House Hires Ex-Googler to Make Government Websites Suck Less (We Hope)
Uncle Sam: If at first you don't succeed, hire former Google wizard and HealthCare.gov resurrector Mikey Dickerson to clean up your mess. Again.
Building a Business
Google Is Interested in Your Health, But Deterred by Regulations
In an extensive interview with venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page explained why regulations are hampering improvements in health care.
By Laura Entis
Business News
How Your Smartphone Is Becoming Your Doctor
Withings has created a series of health-care devices designed to integrate seamlessly with your smartphone.
By Jason Ankeny
Building a Business
These Two Innovative Diagnostic Devices Just Scored Big Funding
One is for early detection of ovarian cancer, the other is a microendoscope that gynecologists can use in their exam rooms. Both aim to make a difference in patients' lives.