End-of-week observations and research summaries.
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Please, please, please don’t buy into the conspiracy theories about mRNA vaccines modifying your DNA.
Health care spending is likely to rise sharply in the next couple of years.
Cedar seeks its way out of the forest by spending $425 million to acquire OODA Health, creating a firm which offers billing and revenue cycle services to providers and payers.
https://medcitynews.com/2021/05/cedar-bulks-up-billing-platform-with-425m-acquisition/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=127165871&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--1ta4NBan4iOOjU0EyqX7VaiGVOmq6xmS0Ygd5CnM-DLKbKLh1l_Wse0Xzf8TrjbGj38ENAliiZz4mCjqsdrLqZWNYIRcH_wbA-9seODeTaY04vrc&utm_content=127165871&utm_source=hs_email&rf=1Hospitals are an expensive health care setting, so for decades policy has attempted to lessen hospital use, which has some unintended consequences, as revealed by the epidemic. One emerging trend has been "hospital at home", in which all the expensive equipment is placed, and monitoring of a patient is literally done, at their home. Mayo Clinic and Kaiser have both invested in a company facilitating hospital at home capabilities, putting as much as $100 million into Medically Home Group.
https://www.axios.com/mayo-clinic-kaiser-permanente-medically-home-1f6eade9-0dd9-4cae-a2bf-0f5b52ce382b.html?mkt_tok=ODUwLVRBQS01MTEAAAF9BKyhFiKNAsQmtHy2_cXr7Q6R4RlX4Yvx8kelMMyG1QD07rHkVViDBaRIX0-Sahr5tHKaa7a-tRR6VUzYoManr2PzNYH8e2H_I1uJGUSCsI4JMore charts showing the true state of hospital use by younger age groups.
An interesting comparison of mask-mandate and non-mask mandate states.
Bouncing around on an airplane and still getting off some research summaries.
A quick set of research summaries, more later and another set of charts.
India has a lot of cases and deaths, but isn’t close to what the UK experienced.
A chart of deaths by state, adjusted for population age-structure, is revealing.
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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at [email protected].
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