Yippee, its spring and I spring some more research summaries on you.
Health care is a fifth of the economy. Everyone wants a piece, including Walmart, which just purchased a telemedicine company, MeMD, for an undisclosed sum. Walmart has increasingly added health care services to its original pharmacy business, including in-store clinics. At least with Walmart, health care probably is made more affordable.
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/telehealth/walmart-health-to-acquire-telehealth-provider-6-details.html?origin=CIOE&utm_source=CIOE&utm_medium=email&utm_content=newsletter&oly_enc_id=4013B4524489F1YA few more observations on Minnesota’s lightening up on lockdown measures and the usual medley of research summaries.
LTC residents as a source of CV-19 deaths has dropped dramatically.
A great chart of trends in hospitalization rates by age group. You clearly do not see any evidence of an increase in the rate for younger cohorts, especially children and young adults.
Getting caught up on research again, and a glimmer of “normality” in Minnesota.
Vida Health comes alive with a $110 million capital raise to support its business of offering apps to help manage chronic health conditions. It only competes with a hundred other companies offering the same low value crap, so you can understand why investors jumped at the chance to put more money in.
https://medcitynews.com/2021/05/vida-health-raises-110m-for-chronic-condition-management/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=125534644&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--HaPf5YseQLcfmCf_qj4cT6LnYuaLsfZX0OR29WO-DNn_E-I8WAAG0Fp-s9QdIaZOct3uLHM9Z9Qblkkm8zRoPLTVq1BySCwmX17IBruDZ77R2yNA&utm_content=125534644&utm_source=hs_emailCollective Health aggregates $280 million in new financing to support its employer health benefits management business. The investors have lost their collective minds. The company serves employers with 300,000 members in 55 companies, so it is being valued at about $1000 a member for a commodity business.
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/tech/collective-health-nets-hefty-280m-series-f-round-backed-by-hcsc-softbank?mkt_tok=Mjk0LU1RRi0wNTYAAAF825vx0wAnOq0-BEvGPy5e7-t02lX4exwma5BG8ts3hLiv8LxxE0FPetri_wSNEeQdhhJ74AOEFXtaQduRJiPENznPxapqFhTtSS_YibcPGlvZm30&mrkid=635530Drug pricing is excessive and hurts consumers, and it is not due to a free market, but to patents.
The racist race obsession, developed by BLM and promoted by the Biden administration and white progressives everywhere, is going to kill this country.
Headway has raised $70 million in new capital to facilitate growth of its platform to assist therapists in providing mental health services and patients in finding therapists.
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/tech/mental-health-startup-headway-hauls-70m-series-b-expands-to-10-new-states?mkt_tok=Mjk0LU1RRi0wNTYAAAF81uCsqsX0qVncerEM1CUlMlwtCPAP-kt-AIYMa1UFFI36XvELNSNkJtTgUMInxSYKtzFRjSU797HY_t0rsZ2v9VA7OjxmFqa0-vPrPBULyuu1I2k&mrkid=635530Boston was pretty dead, but here are some observations and research summaries I put together to liven things up on the way back.
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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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