Must be a fruity day, as Limelight Health garners $7 million in new funding for its employee health benefits enrollment, etc. software. What's next--a company named Apple?
In a nutty idea, chronic disease prevention firm Fruit Street has raised $8 million, mostly from physicians, which should be a tipoff to other investors (physicians are legendary for the investing acumen (not)).
NextGen, an EHR vendor which is a unit of Quality Systems, is acquiring EagleDream Health for around $26 million. EagleDream provides analytics to improve practice performance.
Research published in JAMA Cardiology found minimal differences in medication use or adherence for Medicare heart disease patients in ACOs compared to those not in ACOs.
A PE firm has made a substantial investment in home health care franchisor ComforCare. (Is that supposed to be Comfort Care? Come for Care? Come for Comfort Care? We care if you're comfortable? We make a comfortable profit on your Care?)
American taxpayers have handed out over $24 billion in subsidies to purchase health insurance under the new law. HHS has said it doesn't know if the recipients were actually eligible, but maybe by 2022 they will have some idea. What a joke.
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