Some papers on various ways that we might see an end to the epidemic and a way out of the economic morass we have created.
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Another typical post. For new readers, this blog usually is all health care business, policy, and research and one staple is me making fun of the ridiculous names people put on their start-up health care companies. Wellth, which uses behavioral economics to encourage better treatment plan aherence, has raised $10 million in new financing. Now normally I would find a pun or something that I at least think is clever about that name, but right now I am multi-tasking listening to the daily coronavirus briefing, and that is just depressing.
https://www.wellthapp.com/news/wellth-raises-10m-to-drive-better-health-outcomes-through-behavioral-economicsI regurgitate a bunch of research and columns.
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You can try to suppress the virus or you can learn to adapt to its presence, and those strategies have very different economic and social consequences.
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I try to communicate with people who are making decisions that affect us all.
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Minnesota and other states are in dire financial shape and some of the legislative action is not helping.
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More distress from yesterday's daily coronavirus briefing from the Governor.
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I have started making a few coronavirus podcasts and they are available through the podcast button.
Yikes, another non CV item. Change Healthcare, which offers a variety of health care analytics and administrative services, is buying an e-prescribing business for $213 million and selling one analytics unit to Kaufmann Hall.
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/tech/change-healthcare-buys-back-pharmacy-unit-for-213m-sells-analytics-division-to-kaufman-hall?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWW1JMU9EYzVNREprWTJZMyIsInQiOiJJXC8xNkJjT3RTZmNXR05idTFnMGlzdkJ3bndlY3NYUm52bVc0Y2FyQUVENnlUUkhrNEZ2emdPd01VWEhVZmpjSTdvSGxRaUZBckk3S1hcL25sNmY2b1ZJY01aQkQ4NlByYWdFOHg3YmNYVGRsRFo5QXc4XC9yUUtwcEhFRXRsYnFGSSJ9&mrkid=635530This epidemic likely has some unusual features, and the reactions to it have not taken those into account.
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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 khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.