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Oct 16 2013

A study published in Health Affairs indicates that hospitals with higher nursing staffing ratios had less likelihood of incurring the Medicare excess readmissions penalty.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/32/10/1740.abstract

Oct 15 2013

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Francisco Partners has invested several million dollars in electronic medical record vendor NexTech.

Oct 15 2013

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HealthEdge has obtained an additional $17.5 million in debt financing from Fifth Street Technology Partners. The proceeds will be used to retire existing debt and for growth.

Oct 15 2013

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Dignity Health, a large health system, and the Optum division of UnitedHealth Group have formed a joint venture to sell revenue cycle management solutions to providers.

Oct 14 2013

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According to Health Affairs, more doctors are practicing in large groups, which raises hopes for better care coordination, but also likely supports demands for high reimbursement.

Oct 14 2013

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Research in Health Affairs finds no evidence that physicians provide less care to Medicaid, Community Health Center or uninsured patients, in fact Medicaid patients appear to get more of some types of services.

Oct 10 2013

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Lexmark’s Perceptive Software unit has acquired PACSGEAR for about $54 million.

Oct 09 2013

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PracticeFusion, an electronic medical records company, has raised an additional $70 million to fund continuing expansion and prepare for an apparent IPO.

Oct 09 2013

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PatientSafe, a developer of a mobile app designed to help reduce adverse medication errors and other safety problems, has raised an additional $27 million to expand to Asia.

Oct 09 2013

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According to Rock Health, so far in 2013 there have been 145 financing transactions worth $1.5 billion for digital health companies, up 37% from last year.

Oct 09 2013

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Evolent, a maker of health system software to combine financial and medical data, raised an additional $100 million.

Sep 20 2013

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In the Kaiser integrated delivery system, implementation of an EHR appeared associated with a decrease in ER visits and hospitalizations, but not office visits, according to a study in JAMA.

Sep 20 2013

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The Medical Group Management Association reports that Practices’ annual HIT spending grew 28% from 2008 to 2012, to almost $20,000 per physician. Staffing for administrative purposes has also increased, in large part due to more and more complex regulations.

Sep 20 2013

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The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the current proposed repeal of the physician sustainable growth rate formula will cost $175 billion over ten years.

Sep 19 2013

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The Labor Department has decreed that 2 million home health care workers are subject to the minimum wage and hourly work provisions, which may be a nice pay back to unions and other groups which contribute to Democrats and the Administration, but which will also raise health care costs.

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