Alphaeon, which helps doctors provide wellness services and products to patients, has acquired exclusive license rights to TouchMD, which offers physicians products to help educate patients.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/alphaeon-acquires-exclusive-worldwide-licensing-rights-to-touchmd-227216371.htmlSomeone needs to check the water in Silicon Valley, Thync has received $13 million for its wearable device that senses your mood and can supposedly apply ultrasound or electricity to make you feel calmer or more energetic. I am thyncing that the investors tried it on and it actually works to make you dumber.
http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/08/thync-has-raised-13m-to-change-your-mood-with-ultrasound-waves-and-electricity/A report from Express Scripts provides an updated look at drug utilization by enrollees in exchange plans.
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Reference pricing is gaining ground as a technique to control variation in provider costs for the same service. A brief from the National Institute for Health Care Reform finds that…
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A survey in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that most hospitals agree that public reporting on performance measures stimulates quality improvement at their hospital, but quality officers and others are less like to agree with this than are CEOs. Those most involved and most knowledgeable seem the least impressed by the value of quality reporting.
http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1910548&utm_source=Silverchair%20Information%20Systems&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ArchivesofInternalMedicine%3AOnlineFirst10%2F06%2F2014&utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=14451240&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9fmQSRGEpFLBEW7qWx7YsFqlaxVv6WVDY-ztx1zYM40OKuBfkHOOoisYmKIW2Ng-DMDwxOHBWb43dDFekA9x73wZRlEw&_hsmi=14451240TowersWatson says that users of its private health insurance exchange can expect total health spending growth of just 1.8% in 2015, but don't provide adjustments for benefit design changes or differences in the population using exchanges.
http://www.towerswatson.com/en/Press/2014/10/oneexchange-for-active-employees-holds-health-care-cost-increases-to-just-1-pt-8-percent-in-2015An Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality statistical brief compares health insurance costs for private and government employees.
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