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A study in JAMA Internal Medicine indicates that patient satisfaction scores are not necessarily correlated with objective measures of care quality.
http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1897545
Health Gorilla isn't monkeying around, getting $1.2 million to support connecting providers with diagnostic labs electronically.
http://medcitynews.com/2014/08/startup-health-gorilla-raising-1-2m-expansion-diagnostic-test-markeet/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=728960e356-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-728960e356-67677117
In a big win for the proponents of mobile apps having a dramatic impact on health, Aetna is dropping its mobile fitness tracker, CarePass. Wait, did that say dropping? What's going on here, I thought these apps were going to be world beaters?
http://medcitynews.com/2014/08/aetna-drops-mobile-health-app-carepass/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=0f20021106-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-0f20021106-67677117
Another telemedicine company, Avizia, has received $2 million to develop and sell carts to support telemedicine hardware and software.
http://medcitynews.com/2014/08/cisco-veterans-telemedicine-business-raises-2m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=728960e356-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-728960e356-67677117
RxResults, a new pharmacy benefit management firm, has raised $4 million.
http://medcitynews.com/2014/08/pharmacy-benefit-management-firm-rxresults-raising-4m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=728960e356-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-728960e356-67677117
Private health insurance exchange vendor Array Health raised an additional $9 million to support growth.
http://medcitynews.com/2014/08/private-health-insurance-exchange-software-maker-array-health-raises-9m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=728960e356-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-728960e356-67677117
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
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/
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/
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
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.