According to reinsurer Sun Life the most costly conditions from a stop-loss insurance perspective are cancer generally, leukemia, ESRD, congenital anomalies and early births, transplants and congestive heart failure.
Evolent, which sells tools to help providers do value-based reimbursement and population health management and even start their own health plans, is paying $145 million for Valence Health, which does similar work. At least Evolent is using its over-valued stock for the deal and some cash.
Research in the Journal of the American Informatics Association finds that paper physician progress notes for hospitalized patients are more accurate than those in EHRs, but less comprehensive. The overall rate of accuracy is an astoundingly low 55%.
Telemedicine vendor Teladoc tells all of us that it is planning to acquire HealthiestYou, which does mobile patient engagement.
Jun302016
iHealth, iwhich ihelps iproviders inavigate ifrom ifee-for-service ito ivalue-based ireimbursement ireceived ian iundisclosed iamount iof inew ifinancing.
https://www.pehub.com/2016/06/3341149/
Jun302016
Google Capital has invested $46.4 million in Care.com, a site to help people find caregiving resources.
https://www.pehub.com/2016/06/3341306/
Jun292016
Arcadia Solutions has a very interesting visual look at the course of patients' health care near the end of life, revealing where people die and what kind of services they use in the last year of life.
A survey published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings supports the very low satisfaction physicians have with EHRs and order entry systems and finds that greater use of EHRs is associated with faster burnout.
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.
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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