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Oct 10 2013

pacs

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Lexmark’s Perceptive Software unit has acquired PACSGEAR for about $54 million.

Oct 09 2013

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By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

PracticeFusion, an electronic medical records company, has raised an additional $70 million to fund continuing expansion and prepare for an apparent IPO.

Oct 09 2013

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By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

PatientSafe, a developer of a mobile app designed to help reduce adverse medication errors and other safety problems, has raised an additional $27 million to expand to Asia.

Oct 09 2013

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According to Rock Health, so far in 2013 there have been 145 financing transactions worth $1.5 billion for digital health companies, up 37% from last year.

Oct 09 2013

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Evolent, a maker of health system software to combine financial and medical data, raised an additional $100 million.

Sep 20 2013

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By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

In the Kaiser integrated delivery system, implementation of an EHR appeared associated with a decrease in ER visits and hospitalizations, but not office visits, according to a study in JAMA.

Sep 20 2013

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By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The Medical Group Management Association reports that Practices’ annual HIT spending grew 28% from 2008 to 2012, to almost $20,000 per physician. Staffing for administrative purposes has also increased, in large part due to more and more complex regulations.

Sep 20 2013

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By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the current proposed repeal of the physician sustainable growth rate formula will cost $175 billion over ten years.

Sep 19 2013

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By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The Labor Department has decreed that 2 million home health care workers are subject to the minimum wage and hourly work provisions, which may be a nice pay back to unions and other groups which contribute to Democrats and the Administration, but which will also raise health care costs.

Sep 18 2013

hie

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Walgreens is the latest large employer to move to the defined contribution, private exchange method of providing health benefits. The trend will go very fast toward this approach as it allows companies to finally control health spending by just increasing contributions very moderately. Bad news for employees, who will shoulder even more of health care cost increases.