PE firm Ancor Capital has acquired DuvaSawko, which provides billing, coding and related services to emergency medicine practices.
https://www.pehub.com/2016/03/3322718/
Mar252016
EHR vendor Allscripts is buying a stake in Netsmart Technologies, a vendor of behavioral health software. In a complex transaction, Allscripts home health software will be combined with Netsmart to create a company also partly owned by a PE firm.
Piecing together fragments of information, we have learned that Pieces Technology has pieced together $21.6 million in fresh investment in piecemeal fashion to further its clinical decision support software business. Now don't go to pieces.
Narrative DX says that it has raised $1.1 million in capital and stated that it will use it for its tool to add context to patient satisfaction surveys, which sounds like quite a story.
According to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine, the number of clinical messages generated by electronic medical records is beginning to overwhelm physicians. Reading and responding takes substantial time and is leading to information overload.
Nautic is investing around $15o million in ExactCare Pharmacy, which provides mail order and drug management services.
https://www.pehub.com/buyouts/663454/
Mar092016
New research appears to confirm that directing certain medical procedures, such as knee replacements, only to high-volume providers, could save significant health spending while maintaining or improving quality.
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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.