The Commonwealth Fund explores Medicare spending trends by age group.
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I think I don't understand this. Cogitativo, which offers some AI driven software to help providers improve performance, raised $18.5 million in new capital. This sentence from the company encapsulates the BS that permeates certain segments of health care and which should be a warning sign for any thoughtful investor but clearly isn't. "Cogitativo's machine learning platform disrupts the rapidly growing market for healthcare performance improvements by enabling payers and providers to identify and challenge system complexities."
https://www.morningstar.com/news/pr-newswire/20191218sf71019/cogitativo-raises-185m-series-b-round-of-financingAn article in JAMA Network Open gives some further insight into practice pattern decisions and diffusion of new treatments.
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Hospital quality of care was more likely to remain the same or decline than improve following involvement in a merger or acquisition.
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Happy 2020. We start the year with a look at health spending in my home state of Minnesota.
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I don't do predictions anymore, but here are some issues that I think you can watch for in the coming year or years.
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What the heck happened in health care during the last decade? You get it all here in three minutes or less.
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Every year I use the holidays to express some sentiment about enjoying family, friends and taking a break from the often-hectic and harrying pace of our lives, and I mean those sentiments very sincerely. While we may not like to think about it, we each have only a limited time in our lives. That should impel a certain seriousness in understanding what makes a real difference in our happiness and satisfaction. The comfort of meaningful relationships with others should be at the top of that list. So I hope all of you find dedicated and ample time for those relationships. And enjoy the relative economic security and abundance we enjoy in this country; it doesn’t happen by accident and it isn’t present everywhere around the world.
A Harvard Business Review article discusses how three primary care groups approach high-cost patients.
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LeanTaas fattens up with $40 million in new financing for its predictive analytics to help manage the use of health care resources.
https://medcitynews.com/2019/12/goldman-sachs-plows-40m-into-california-predictive-analytics-startup/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=81089305&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_CwisXK41QlIl_6EKEB8YHq3into8AgsPWv2STFKcNffbcYJcL8cJy7lP2kU6PSDdb9ldNoINH6VAOAUboQ0pRLyIxSJqAx-FEDMmqvkJ_ZRjL1Zc&_hsmi=81089305&rf=1Caresyntax (might want to change that name, a lot of people care about sin taxes), a vendor of software to reduce surgery complications, has raised about $46 million in new financing and used part of it to acquire, Syus, which offers analytic services to hospitals.
https://medcitynews.com/2019/12/or-software-company-raises-45-6m-and-makes-a-new-acquisition/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=81089305&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_CwisXK41QlIl_6EKEB8YHq3into8AgsPWv2STFKcNffbcYJcL8cJy7lP2kU6PSDdb9ldNoINH6VAOAUboQ0pRLyIxSJqAx-FEDMmqvkJ_ZRjL1Zc&_hsmi=81089305&rf=1About this Blog
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 khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.
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