Welltok, the population health management and wellness vendor, raised an additional healthy round of $12 million to add gaming and other incentive capabilities to its platform.
A Peterson-Kaiser blog post summarizes the data on US health use and unit prices versus other countries. The data indicates that our utilization rates are not out of line but our unit costs are the highest.
Bolder Healthcare Solutions, a revenue cycle management vendor, has boldly purchased PPM Information Services, which offers a variety of administrative software to providers.
I am happy I am a luddite and invest my money in things like the lottery that have a better return possibility than other things I read about. Bam Labs, for example, just got another $3.5 million for its bed that monitors sleep.
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.