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A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that using a formal care handoff process to share information between a patient's clinicians reduced medical errors in hospitals.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1405556
CareSync has gotten investors to sink $4.25 million into its "consumer-centric" care coordination (fill in buzz word here) business.
http://www.tullisfunds.com/news/caresync-closes-4-25-million-series-a-financing-to-accelerate-expansion-and-innovation
PRA Health Sciences, another contract research organization, has also filed for a public offering, looking to raise as much as $375 million.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/09/09/4135916_raleigh-based-pra-files-plans.html?rh=1
Seniorlink, which has staffing and technology to care for people in their homes, has acquired Vayu Technologies, a tele-care platform.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/10/prweb12259913.htm
Clearview Logix, a health analytics application developer, has acquired Evenspring's health care division.
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20141015005326/en#.VFzjEb64lz8
$7.5 million has been added to HealthCare.com's coffers to support its health insurance search and comparison software.
https://www.pehub.com/2014/11/healthcare-com-racks-up-7-5-mln-series-a/
Specialty EMR vendor Modernizing Medicine attains a new $15 million investment, partly to be used for developing telemedicine capabilities.
http://medcitynews.com/2014/11/cloud-based-specialty-emr-developer-modernizing-medicine-raises-15m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=18cfdbe05c-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-18cfdbe05c-67648197
Sentrian has elicited a $12 investment in software designed to improve remote health monitoring by screening out false positives.
http://medcitynews.com/2014/11/in-move-to-reduce-false-positives-in-remote-patient-monitoring-health-it-company-raises-12m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=61427627d9-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-61427627d9-67648197
Almond Systems received a nutty $9 million in capital for its digital tools to help people eat healthier.
http://mobihealthnews.com/37386/almond-systems-raises-9m-to-develop-digital-tools-that-help-people-eat-healthier/
MDLive, which offers telehealth visits, has acquired Breakthrough Behavioral, which offers video consulting.
http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/Telehealth-Vendor-Targets-Behavioral-Health-49208-1.html?utm_campaign=daily-nov%2011%202014&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&ET=healthdatamanagement%3Ae3323954%3A3722900a%3A&st=email
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.