Verily I say unto you, verisimilitude requires me to mention that Verisma has raised very much capital, $12 million for its software to manage the secure release of patient health records.
23andMe, the controversial direct-to-consumer seller of genetic testing, has raised another $115 in financing.
http://medcitynews.com/2015/10/23andme-brings-in-115m-in-series-e/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=05a1771e79-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-05a1771e79-408793005&rf=1Investors are going ape over Health Gorilla, giving it $2.4 million in capital to build a nationwide platform for information sharing between providers and patients.
Results from CMS' Comprehensive Primary Care initiative are decidedly mixed. In 2014 the 433 practices that served 377,000 beneficiaries saved about $24 million but that is before offsetting fees and doesn't say what the results were at the practice level. Only one region had savings after the fees.
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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.