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May 19 2014

ActualMeds, which provides software to help patients and provides manage medications, has raised $400,000.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/05/actualmeds-picks-up-400k/
May 19 2014

A survey from Buck Consultants finds that in 2014 employer health plans are expecting about an 8.5% to 8.7% increase in medical costs, which likely would lead to at least similar-sized premium increases for the next year.

ww.buckconsultants.com/portals/0/publications/press-releases/2014/NR-National-HC-Trend-Survey-2014-0515.pdf
May 19 2014

A brief from the Urban Institute argues that the employer mandate in the reform law could be eliminated without causing much impact on employment related coverage.  Might be the initial attempt at cover for the Administration to remove the mandate.

http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/413117-Why-Not-Just-Eliminate-the-Employer-Mandate.pdf
May 19 2014

A study in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that adding remote monitoring to an ICU does not reduce mortality or length of stay.

http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1868535#Discussion
May 19 2014

A survey by MdLive, a large telemedicine provider, finds that many young adults prefer the convenience of telehealth visits.

https://www.mdlive.com/news/press_05142014b.html
May 16 2014

Post-acute giant Kindred Healthcare has made an unsolicited over to buy Gentiva, which provides home care and hospice services, for $1.6 billion.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140515/NEWS/305159954?AllowView=VDl3UXk1TzhDL0dCbkJiYkY0M3hlMGFvaWtVZEQrST0=&utm_source=link-20140515-NEWS-305159954&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mpdaily&utm_name=top
May 16 2014

Navigant Consulting is paying up to $100 million for Cymetrix, which helps providers collect from patients and payers.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140515/INFO/305159926?AllowView=VDl3UXk1TzhDL0dCbXgzS0M0M3hlMGFvaWtVZENPQT0=&utm_source=link-20140515-INFO-305159926&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hits&utm_name=top
May 16 2014

Oscar Health, the "disruptive" health plan in New York, has raised an additional $80 million in capital, apparently at an $800 million valuation.

http://www.finsmes.com/2014/05/oscar-raises-80m.html
May 16 2014

According to DowJones Venture Source, HIT companies raised over $237 million in the first quarter of this year.

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/05/12/health-software-funding-driven-by-obamacare-hits-post-dot-com-high/
May 16 2014

Grab your wallets, the military, which has a disastrous health IT record, is proposing to spend $11 billion, you read that right, to fix its EHR problem.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/dod-ehealth-records-system-106607.html
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