Kevin Roche

Jun 02 2017

Outcome Health, which says it provides "health intelligence during critical moments of care", but actually just offers electronic advertising in doctors' offices and other care settings, has raised an astounding $500 million in a round that values the company at over $5 billion.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/outcome-health-lands-funding/

Jun 02 2017

Who do Doctors Work for?

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According to an American Medical Association survey less than half of doctors are now in independent practice.

Jun 02 2017

Bright Health looks brilliant, raising an additional $160 million in capital to support a push into Medicare Advantage markets. Not so sure about the investors' brightness.

http://medcitynews.com/2017/06/quest-fix-broken-member-experience-insurance-bright-health-raises-fresh-capital/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=52658180&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8vO-_YdnTyHDtxjtv0zyJpq-v02KLoaY61ReFhhduqegHql-Gf6jyALC8S8O7834ES-JjR-Qmu0Ge1vrdbu6wsU_de2JSSGwXs7_B6rsugphPyck8&_hsmi=52658180

Jun 01 2017

Payment Reform and Market Competitiveness

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The effects of payment reform may depend on the competitiveness of a provider market, according to research in the Journal of Health Economics.

May 31 2017

A study in JAMA reveals that use of an oncology bundled payment method in Taiwan resulted in slightly lower spending and slightly better quality performance.

http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2627949

May 31 2017

Teaching Hospitals and Mortality Rates

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A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that teaching hospitals have lower mortality rates.

May 31 2017

Health IT vendor Mediware is buying Kinnser Software which offers systems for home health and hospice providers.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/pe-backed-mediware-acquires-kinnser-software/

May 30 2017

Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Survey

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The Employee Benefits Research Institute releases results from its latest consumer engagement survey.

May 29 2017

Happy Memorial Day

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It is a good day to reflect on the country we live in and the human cost to create and maintain it.

May 26 2017

Medrio, a maker of software to support clinical trials, has pulled in $30 million in new funding.

http://www.crossroadstoday.com/story/35503893/medrio-inc-announces-30-million-equity-investment-from-questa-capital

May 26 2017

Artificial intelligence for patient experience vendor NarrativeDx garners a new round of funding.

https://www.healthxventures.com/news/2017/5/11/narrativedx-builds-leading-ai-platform-for-patient-experience-secures-series-a-funding-for-continued-growth

May 26 2017

Global Medical Trends

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Willis Towers Watson issues results from a global survey of medical benefit trends.

May 25 2017

Health care cost containment vendor Advanced Medical Pricing Solutions has been recapped by a PE firm.

http://www.fiercebiotech.com/cro/inc-research-and-inventiv-health-merge-another-major-cro-deal?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mrkid=635530&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWlRSa1ltVmhORFF4TmpNeiIsInQiOiJJUkZYWU9cL1wvSmRNeW54V0dGOURlTE11RFFDYWo4bkgwcml0UyswZm1MVGVyN1wvSVVYUkg0cTdtMWtiT2dnUWZmcXF0V2dDSFRoR1BTOE1HU2E4YTc0dkx2b0tPZythT3ZYaFlyS3FER01DdUoxZ1wvTUVhNkVzbkh5Q01kaitNVVYifQ%3D%3D

May 25 2017