The main challenge facing the healthcare system for many years, both in the continental United States and Puerto Rico, is the reality that existing technology platforms used to handle patient information do not communicate with each other. They hold information hostage with proprietary programming interfaces to the detriment of patients and the overall healthcare system. […]
Impactivo and Day Health Strategies (DHS) have joined efforts to assist the nation’s primary healthcare providers and enable them to move forward in a world changed by COVID-19. The consultancies have partnered with researchers and practitioners nationwide to inform their newly launched “at-home healthcare solution” in the recently released white paper entitled, “Primary Care Transformation […]
The Coronavirus pandemic will cause people to rethink existing values and will impact economic models going forward, a group of local and international experts gathered by Invest Puerto Rico during a virtual webinar concluded. In Puerto Rico, where the economy has been limping along for the better part of the last 12 years, the already […]
MCS executives will join industry experts in the 2019 Puerto Rico Health Insurance Conference on April 5 to discuss from the private sector’s perspective some of the most controversial challenges impacting the industry, and how they can be addressed, organizers announced. In response to the many challenges stemming from current federal underfunding policies, the healthcare […]
Two years since its conceptualization, the Health Industry Information Platform mobile app has been launched in Puerto Rico to gather sector information and put it in the hands of physicians with private practices. Salvador Rovira, who heads the initiative, said the information will also benefit hospitals. About $150,000 in private investment was made to establish […]
Puerto Rico’s “Vital” plan provides medical coverage to those that cannot afford traditional medical plans.
As Puerto Rico continues to rebuild following the devastation caused by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, Medicare funding disparities still undermine access to healthcare on the island, the group said.
The local trade group known as the CUD will have access to Hoy Health’s portfolio of healthcare products.
MCS’ new Conexión de Salud is part of the larger “Vivela MCS” platform and focuses on helping the company’s network providers.
Our shift from a regionalized public health system into a Medicaid managed care system (“La Reforma”) in 1993 changed the landscape of healthcare in Puerto Rico.
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust announced $1.3 million in new funding to The Solar Foundation and Direct Relief to ensure continuous access to healthcare for communities in Puerto Rico devastated by Hurricane María.
Research-based global biopharmaceutical company AbbVie will donate $100 million to two organizations, Direct Relief and Habitat for Humanity International, to strengthen access to healthcare and housing in Puerto Rico.
MSO of Puerto Rico, LLC, the corporate administrator of the Medicare y Mucho Más MMM provider network, announced the opening of a specialized care unit, “Unidad Dorada” in Mayaguez.
The mass exodus of Puerto Ricans to the U.S. mainland are already having an impact on federal health system funding and will surely influence the upcoming electoral cycle, according to a report published by San Juan-based Impactivo Consulting.
New York Healthcare’s Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief Fund, which was established to provide direct aid to health care workers and other workers on the front lines of the recovery effort in Puerto Rico, has contributed $1 million to the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, the nonprofits announced.
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