Kevin Roche

May 20 2016

Happy Patients and Profitable Hospitals

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Accenture publishes an article revealing that hospitals that create better patient experience of care have higher profit margins.

May 19 2016

Decisio Healt raise $4.5 millio fo it softwar tha help hospital improv clinica processe.

http://hitconsultant.net/2016/05/18/33883/

May 19 2016

S & P’s Health Care Claims Index and the Latest Altarum Institute Reports

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Analyzing the latest medical spending data suggests that growth rates continue to be much higher than those for the economy.

May 19 2016

Healthify, which helpifys health plans and health systemifys manage the socialify needs of their populationifys, does an iffy deal, raising $2.5 millionify.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/05/healthify-raises-2-5-mln/

May 19 2016

Noble.Md has doctored itself by raising a royal $1.5 million for its totally new (sarc) idea of creating population health apps.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/05/noble-md-founder-moves-beyond-awkward-healthcare-conversations/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=21d8f5dd86-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-21d8f5dd86-408793005&rf=1

May 18 2016

McKinsey Survey of Exchange Enrollees

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McKinsey issues results of a survey it conducted of exchange enrollees.

May 17 2016

Drug Coverage Exclusion Lists

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PBMs and payers are beginning to exclude more drugs from any kind of coverage.

May 16 2016

Health Impacts of Being a Caregiver

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Research in the New England Journal of Medicine looks at the health effects of being a caregiver for a critically ill patient.

May 13 2016

A study in Annals of Internal Medicine reveals that few consumers who engage in direct-to-consumer genetic testing share the results with their physicians.

http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2498491

May 13 2016

A Liberal Critique of the Berner’s Single Payer Plan

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If you thought the current reform law cost way more than the Administration said it would, you ain't seen nothin' yet, according to an analysis of Sen. Sanders grandiose health…

May 13 2016

Health care staffing firm Advanced Medical Personnel Services is acquiring Rise Medical Staffing.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/05/3331637/

May 12 2016

Large numbers of patients are using virtual visits for routine and urgent care due to convenience. Research in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that guideline adherent care is not delivered in a significant fraction of these virtual visits and there is substantial variation in care across virtual visit websites.

http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2511324

May 12 2016

Price Transparency and Health Spending

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Having a health services price transparency tool available for use by patients doesn't appear to lead to lower health spending, according to research in JAMA.

May 11 2016

Hospital Responses to Readmission Penalties

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Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that hospitals did not respond to readmission penalties by increasing observation stays.

May 10 2016