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Sep 16 2015

Theorem Clinical Research, a full-service CRO, is really, not theoretically, being sold by its private equity owner to Chiltern International.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150915006106/en/Nautic-Partners-LLC-Announces-Sale-Theorem-Clinical#.VfmGYLS5dHg
Sep 16 2015

Large dental supply firm Dentsply is acquiring competitor Sirona Dental for $5.5 billion.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/16/business/dealbook/dentsply-to-acquire-sirona-dental-for-5-5-billion.html?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=22074792&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_p_iA9MCAcjWe0XRXQDBO2uV9e20H0Rq0i3N9KsroqS4N1laawnWwqfC8oOgumtqlG91dwsNWJU00W6tMjnaFTI_fzPH-nRB0sHqlG5dDpDNQJxq0&_hsmi=22074792&_r=0
Sep 16 2015

Proving that making lots of money doesn't make a company smarter, Google is apparently investing $32.5 million in struggling "new style" insurer Oscar, at a $1.75 billion.  So far Oscar has mostly shown it needs a good actuary.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-backs-startup-oscar-health-insurance-1442374756?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=22074792&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8cZicOlwwg6VnAY8BWJDTC6HEnJvoFIt1anPy0KOLFgcLspdcIO6GE6qyxEM7d5Z802aQ4KfV7fRrAr3tRdQ4ubVrtgd0dOHOuRzwwxxT0Bn4UjNE&_hsmi=22074792
Sep 15 2015

India-based Practo Health, a doctor search platform, is buying Insta Health, which offers health management services to mostly overseas hospitals.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/14/doctor-search-portal-practo-buys-hospital-management-platform-insta-health-for-12m/
Sep 15 2015

Persivia, which aims to be a precision medicine and health analytics firm, is buying IHM Services Company, which provides clinical intelligence to hospitals.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/09/persivia-health-it-big-data/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=80d7526ff1-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-80d7526ff1-408793005
Sep 15 2015

Qualcomm Life, which does health-related business for its parent Qualcomm Communications is acquiring Capsule Technologies, which in a nutshell provides connectivity with medical devices and other data integration.

http://webinfo.capsuletech.com/capsule-qualcomm-life-company
Sep 15 2015

New research in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that half the difference in readmission rates among hospitals can be explained by characteristics of the patients they treat, further demonstrating the poor design of the CMS penalty program.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/09/14/medicare-unfairly-penalizes-hospitals-treating-sickest-poorest-patients-study-finds/
Sep 12 2015

Billionaire entrepreneur Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong has raised huge sums for two more of his panoply of companies, $150 million for a proteomics lab business and $100 million for an immuno-oncology one.  Be interesting to see how all this relates to his population health management efforts.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/09/two-of-patrick-soon-shiongs-nantworks-startups-net-250m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=446e1408df-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-446e1408df-408793005
Sep 11 2015

According to a Markets & Markets report the population health management market will be worth over $40 billion in annual revenue by 2018.  I have no idea what anyone means by that term and 99% of the people who use it don't know what they mean by it either, but $40 billion is certainly a lot more than the amount of cost savings produced by PHM.

http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/population-health-management-market-263411936.html