Clockwise MD decided its time to raise some funds, without a second to lose, getting a minute $1 million to support its software to help patients and providers identify wait times.
A study in Health Affairs suggests that the neighborhood you grow up in likely has little association with your risk for developing certain chronic diseases, suggesting that early interventions are not likely to be efficacious in reducing prevalence of these diseases.
Proving that making lots of money doesn't make a company smarter, Google is apparently investing $32.5 million in struggling "new style" insurer Oscar, at a $1.75 billion. So far Oscar has mostly shown it needs a good actuary.
Persivia, which aims to be a precision medicine and health analytics firm, is buying IHM Services Company, which provides clinical intelligence to hospitals.
Qualcomm Life, which does health-related business for its parent Qualcomm Communications is acquiring Capsule Technologies, which in a nutshell provides connectivity with medical devices and other data integration.
New research in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that half the difference in readmission rates among hospitals can be explained by characteristics of the patients they treat, further demonstrating the poor design of the CMS penalty program.
Billionaire entrepreneur Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong has raised huge sums for two more of his panoply of companies, $150 million for a proteomics lab business and $100 million for an immuno-oncology one. Be interesting to see how all this relates to his population health management efforts.
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.
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.