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Aug 21 2014

HealthPrize, which offers a gaming solution to help with medication adherence, has received $3 million in investment.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/08/healthprize-to-expand-medication-adherence-gaming-platform-to-payers-employers/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=728960e356-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-728960e356-67677117
Aug 20 2014

Cambridge Temperature Concepts, which markets the DuoFertility device to help women become pregnant, has received about $4 million in financing.

http://wirelesslifesciences.org/2014/08/cambridge-temperature-concepts-ctc-secures-2-6m-private-equity-funding-to-commercialize-duofertility-and-expand-digital-health-platform/
Aug 20 2014

Healthsense has received an investment of $10 million to continue expansion of its remote monitoring for seniors in their homes or senior living settings.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/08/healthsense-nabs-10-mln/
Aug 20 2014

Clinverse has raised $9.5 million for its software to help make and track payments from clinical trial sponsors to investigative sites.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/08/clinverse-raises-9-1m-to-take-complexities-out-of-clinical-trial-payments/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=899c7dc55e-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-899c7dc55e-67648197
Aug 20 2014

PopHealthCare (no, they don't take care of dads) has acquired Educerus Health.  PopHealthCare does care management for high-risk populations and Educerus does in-home screening.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/07/prweb12020042.htm
Aug 20 2014

Self-Help Network has helped itself to $5.6 million in new financing for its mobile tools to monitor people's wellness activities.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/08/self-health-network-raises-5-6m-keep-patients-hospital/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=41a8d05831-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-41a8d05831-67648197
Aug 20 2014

Post-acute care giant Genesis Healthcare is acquiring Skilled Healthcare, to create an even larger firm with about $5.5 billion in revenue.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140818/NEWS/308189954&utm_source=AltURL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=am&AllowView=VXQ0UnpwZTVBdldXL1IzSkUvSHRlRU9oamtRZEErTlo=?mh
Aug 20 2014

Patients who reside in neighborhoods with low socioeconomic status have higher rates of hospital readmissions, even after adjusting for individual socioeconomic status and other factors, according to a study in the journal Circulation Outcomes, providing further evidence of how flawed CMS' readmission penalty program is.

http://circoutcomes.ahajournals.org/content/early/2014/07/29/CIRCOUTCOMES.113.000911.full.pdf
Aug 19 2014

Mednax, a national practice management company focusing on pediatrics, is acquiring MedData, a vendor of revenue cycle management systems and services.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/08/mednax-to-buy-baird-capital-backed-meddata/
Aug 19 2014

A report from the Commission on Medicaid Access and Payment finds that while Medicaid recipients have high rates of ER use, most of it is justified.

https://a7d050c2-a-10078ef1-s-sites.googlegroups.com/a/macpac.gov/macpac/publications/MACFacts-EDuse_2014-07.pdf?attachauth=ANoY7cpM-3ETcAl2YybMthLJVHTlGUFFKO7ohSuRVHX1ULNlZFwQRYLpauM1BiPh1NyFhDcUXeKrDzg_ASoFwz6eGqqcFdUgujjVjiSpfSpuzFzO51XgMhohcCr0xgJhQnp6JYlxeAp_G4R399zLSP2HshaPbQszwGnLTuZZzhwifE6z-bG_Ct-etKrKmo9TO6c_nArUfbUWJ0uv0kAG03Fk4NDo0H0wYULzxjR99ukUUQ4-ESaGBPA%3D&attredirects=1
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Kevin RocheThe 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.

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