Kevin Roche

Jun 07 2016

CMS’ Rewards Lower Quality Hospitals

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Another misfire for CMS' quality efforts, as one such program actually rewards low-quality hospitals.

Jun 06 2016

Rural Hospitals and Surgical Outcomes

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A study in JAMA finds that small, generally rural hospitals, seem to provide generally similar surgical outcomes to more urban facilities.

Jun 03 2016

Evidation Health has raised $11.6 million in new funding to help provide clinical evidence on new digital health and app products, which I thought were so obviously wonderful that they didn't need any evidence that they actually make a difference.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/06/evidation-health-raises-11-6m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=e52ac4994f-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-e52ac4994f-408793005

Jun 03 2016

Hospital Profitability

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Research in Health Affairs describes factors associated with hospital profitability.

Jun 02 2016

Physician and Surrogate Decision-Maker Interactions

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Many very ill and expensive patients have surrogate decision-makers, who often struggle in interactions with doctors around what is best for the patient.

Jun 02 2016

PE-owned MedAssets-Precyse, formed in a complex transaction, is acquiring Equation, a health care provider financial and clinical outcomes consulting firm.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/06/pamplona-backed-medassets-precyse-acquires-equation/

Jun 02 2016

$25 million in new capital flows to EarlySense, a vendor of "contact-free" vital sign and other health data monitoring products.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/06/3336712/

Jun 02 2016

Fruit Street Health raises a zany $5.4 million from physicians in a crowdfunding for something or other, maybe having to do with wearables, data, population health, a real fruit salad.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/06/telehealth-nutrition-consults/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=4b2f86a692-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-4b2f86a692-408793005&rf=1

Jun 02 2016

RubiconMD has raised $4 million to support its business of reducing unnecessary use of specialist doctors.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/06/rubiconmd-raises-4m-series-a-round/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=4b2f86a692-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-4b2f86a692-408793005&rf=1

Jun 01 2016

Quality and Price

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A survey reported in Health Affairs finds that most Americans don't see the relationship between quality and price in health care.

May 31 2016

Income and Life Expectancy

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Research in the Journal of the American Medical Association explores the relationship between income and life expectancy.

May 28 2016

Society of Actuaries Report on 2017 Exchange Premiums

http://www.actuary.org/files/publications/IB.Drivers5.15.pdf

May 27 2016

IMS Health is acquiring Privacy Analytics, which has tools to anonymize health information.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160525005195/en/IMS-Health-Acquires-Privacy-Analytics-Advancing-Real-World

May 27 2016

Covtiviti, which audits health care payments on behalf of CMS and commercial insurers, did an IPO raising over $230 million, but its stock closing off the offering price.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160526/NEWS/160529925?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20160526-NEWS-160529925&utm_campaign=am

May 27 2016

Lumiata lights it up with $10 million in new capital for, wait for it, a predictive analytics tool for population health management. Ooohhh, cool.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/05/lumiata-raises-10m-ramp-product-development-predictive-analytics-risk-assessment/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=cd64fe67dd-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-cd64fe67dd-408793005&rf=1