The latest Altarum Institute Health Sector Trend Report gives a good sense of where health spending for 2016 will end up.
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Price transparency, and not very transparent, firm Castlight is acquiring Jiff, a digital health benefits platform, for 27 million of its overvalued shares. Want a sign of what a desperate deal this is--Jiff shareholders are getting 20% of Castlight, a public company, while Jiff has $7 million in revenue to Castlight's still pathetic $102 million.
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20170105/NEWS/170109964?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20170105-NEWS-170109964&utm_campaign=financedailyToday's post suggests some ideas to improve the current health system, if we can't totally replace it.
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In our continuing thoughts on how to improve our health system, we look at how care is financed for most people.
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As this blog demonstrates, it is easy to take shots at something as complex as health care. Is there a better system than we currently have?
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Clarify Health Solutions gathers $6 million in financing to provide analytics for hospitals, as far as I can tell. Despite the company's name, it is not clear to me what they actually will do or why it is any different that 1000 other analytics platforms.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/12/prweb13887037.htmClinical Research IO gets $1.6 million in new capital to bring yet another electronic data capture for clinical trials product to market.
http://medcitynews.com/2016/12/esource-clinical-research-io-raises-1-6m/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=39865242&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--ZKW422WC8d4JS_ZpEUB-933OMgs8ORT2zLOi91HhDdDcZssX586osUdy8xLRPOfwhNCKx2CYjClX3mZEIHoXftgEsfyJh4Rwws13Jc_pW6I326dc&_hsmi=39865242&rf=1Research published in Medical Care suggests an enhanced approach to finding high-cost patients.
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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.
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