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Apr 10 2014

According to Rock Health, $700 million was invested in mhealth companies, broadly defined, in the first three months of 2014, up sharply from the same period last year.

http://www.mhealthnews.com/news/mhealth-startup-vc-funding-skyrockets
Apr 10 2014

A company offering remote monitoring to detect cardiac arrhythmias, InfoBionics, has raised $17 billion as it prepares to take the device to market.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/04/digital-health-startups-device-detecting-arrhythmia-raises-17m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=3c95d15286-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-3c95d15286-67677117
Apr 10 2014

Omada, which says it is in the business of "digital therapeutics"  (I am not laughing)  has raised $23 million (now I am) for its software and apps (what else could it be) that will help patients with chronic illnesses achieve better outcomes.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/04/andreessen-horowitz-leads-series-b-round-for-omada-health/
Apr 09 2014

Uh-oh.  A first look by Express Scripts at the new enrollees under the exchanges finds that they tend to be older and less healthy.

http://lab.express-scripts.com/insights/government-programs/first-look-health-exchange-medication-utilization
Apr 09 2014

Premier, the large hospital group purchasing organization, has acquired Memdata, which aids hospitals in construction and capital equipment purchasing.

http://www.benzinga.com/news/14/04/4451772/premier-inc-acquires-memdata
Apr 09 2014

The Wall Street Journal has the first of what undoubtedly will be many analyses of what Medicare pays to physicians, finding that a few specialists receive astounding amounts of Medicare payments.  About 1% of doctors receive 14% of all payments and a number receive multi-millions a year from the program.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303456104579490043350808268
Apr 09 2014

Black Book Rankings finds that Practice Fusion is the EHR primary care doctors are most satisfied with, followed by Greenway and Care360.

http://ehrintelligence.com/2014/04/07/black-book-top-primary-care-ehr-honor-goes-to-practice-fusion/
Apr 09 2014

The HHS Office of Inspector General issued a report finding that CMS did not do a good job of detecting inappropriate coding on visits to hospital outpatient clinics.

http://oig.hhs.gov/oas/reports/region4/41206154.pdf
Apr 08 2014

According to an article in the Fiscal Times based on a Morgan Stanley survey of brokers, small group and individual health insurance policies sold outside the insurance exchanges are seeing the largest premium increases in the history of the survey.

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2014/04/08/Health-Insurance-145-Million-Get-Massive-Increases?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=12439520&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_zHcf0gyDaRDDTD409Tjt7zA3we4Vy0uQjDOZ4qRGbVHxMKdDS_hDBcaZsx3z18N6AbKJhfg7Ofz66G15zDj33Awy2Jw&_hsmi=12439520