Yet another PE firm is recapping Matrix Health, the vendor of Medicare risk adjustment services. This time it is Frazier Healthcare in a deal reportedly worth $418 million.
KRY, which offers technology for video consultations with physicians, has raised 6.1 million euros to expand its business from Sweden to international markets.
N. Harris Computer Corp., which has a division offering health care IT services, is acquiring DigiChart, which provides EMRs for obstetricians and gynecologists.
According to research in PLOS, physicians only look at about half of computerized messages from pharmacists and just one-third of the time do they comply with a request that they take some action regarding to drug therapies.
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A Health Affairs article notes that health information exchange efforts are faltering, limiting the ability for providers and payers to broadly share clinical information.
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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.