Verato garners $12.5 million in new funding to attack what would seem to be a mundane issue, matching patients accurately across various health care databases.
Research in Health Affairs finds that Medicare's value-based purchasing program, which has a heavy component of patient satisfaction scores, has had no impact on those scores in hospitals.
PointClickCare is foregoing a public offering, instead raising $85 million in private capital to expand its long-term care and assisted living software business.
According to a study in a Swiss hospital, resident physicians spent almost three times as much time on the computer as seeing patients, or about half their total work time.
A new paper at the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests that the US health system is "uniquely inefficient" based on a study of the diffusion of use of low-value drugs here in comparison to four other developed countries.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w23068.pdf
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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.
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.