Caresyntax (might want to change that name, a lot of people care about sin taxes), a vendor of software to reduce surgery complications, has raised about $46 million in new financing and used part of it to acquire, Syus, which offers analytic services to hospitals.
NeuroFlow hits a nerve with investors, getting $7.5 million in financing for its platform that helps providers integrate mental health care and do remote mental health services.
Emilio Health has gathered a fresh $5 million in funding to develop a behavioral health home for children and families.
Projected growth in CO2 emissions driven by countries outside the OECD graph of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions by country or region, as explained in the article text Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Outlook 2016 Note: OECD is the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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Insight Telepsychiatry and Regroup Telehealth are combining to supposedly create the largest telepsychiatric vendor in the US.
More BS. A study in Health Services Research finds that giving patients a personal "navigator" and some money to buy wellness related services and items provides only a very modest boost to patient activation scores and self-reported quality of life (I would feel better if people gave me things too) but has absolutely no information on impact on any real health status, utilization or spending effect, suggesting that there isn't any.
Bright Health, a new health plan company focussed on narrow network products, secures an additional $635 million in financing, bringing its total to over a billion in capital. Be interesting to see if they can ever generate a return on that.
As seems to often be the case these days, at least until Elizabeth Warren is elected, a health care business is being sold by one private equity firm to another, this time it is EyeCare Partners, going for about $2.2 billion.
A study in Health Services Research finds that a hospital and a skilled nursing facility having a shared EHR for information exchange is not associated with reduced readmissions.
Two providers of health trauma registries are combining, as ESO, which also sells a variety of emergency medical services related software, is acquiring Clinical Data Management.
Zero Card gets something instead of nothing: $7 million in funding for some kind of a goofy card that lets employers let employees let providers get a bundled payment, or something like that, but it is definitely going to disrupt, or is it erupt, anyway, just read the press releases, I am sure you will be impressed.
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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