A study of the VHA's patient portal finds that while 17% of veterans had finalized registration in the portal, a very small percent actually use any of the functionality, other than about 10% using it for getting prescriptions.
According to Global Data, worldwide pharmaceutical revenues may decline by $65 billion by 2019 due to the expiration of patents on some blockbuster drugs.
Dec122014
SocialWellth (they are lisped on the NASDAQ) has acquired Happtique. SocialWellth is digital engagement company and Happtique is an app prescribing tool for physicians. New name will be HappWellth or SocTique or something like thath.
I predict that Predilytics will announce that it raised an additional $10 million in capital to support its machine learning and analytics business for providers and payers. Oh wait, maybe that already happened.
A few years safety concerns led to more limits on the hours residents worked. Of course, research published in JAMA shows that those limits haven't led to any better quality or less safety issues.
MediGain, a vendor of revenue cycle management and data analytics, has acquired Millennium Practice Management Associates, which also provides revenue cycle management services.
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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.