Quatris Health, which sells a variety of software and related services to small and medium-sized physician practices, has acquired HealthSystems, which does similar things, primarily as a reseller of GE software. New name: HealthSystems Health or Health HealthSystems.
OmniSYS, which offers billing, compliance and patient engagement software for pharmacies, has acquired voiceTech, which offers a patient messaging and adherence platform for drug stores. New name, SYSTech, or omnivoice.
Population health manager Alignment raises $117 million in a new round of financing aimed at expanding its work with complex patients in Medicare, Medicaid and other health plans.
In an interesting test of applying behavioral economics to health care, "nudging" consumers with information on insurance savings led to more shopping but not more switching on the Colorado health insurance exchange, according to research in Health Affairs.
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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.