Oct 31 2014

A Frost & Sullivan survey of health care CIOs finds that most are still very dissatisfied with numerous aspects of EHRs.

http://www.healthcare-informatics.com/news-item/cio-survey-ehrs-are-still-slow-time-consuming
Oct 29 2014

Enlitic, which is developing software to do "deep learning" of information on imaging scans, has received a shallow $2 million in capital.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/10/sf-startup-enlitic-funding-deep-learning-f/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=fe10a7e295-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-fe10a7e295-67648197
Oct 29 2014

Telemedicine software startup Bright.md has received $1 million in seed financing.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/10/bright-md-telemedicine/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=fe10a7e295-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-fe10a7e295-67648197
Oct 28 2014

Optum, the non-health plan business of UnitedHealth Group, is purchasing Alere Health, the division on Alere that provides wellness programs for employers and health plan enrollees, for a massive $600 million.  The acquisitions which led to Alere Health had been ill-timed for Alere and outside its core business and the company is fighting off a hostile takeover.
Oct 28 2014

Changes in emergency care malpractice standards in three states did not appear to affect intensity of practice or hospital admissions.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1313308
Oct 28 2014

Vitals has acquired Compass Healthcare.  Both companies are in the business of providing health care cost transparency and comparison solutions.

http://www.vitals.com/about/posts/press-center/press-releases/vitals-acquires-compass-healthcare-advisers
Oct 28 2014

Limeade, a provider of employee wellness and health engagement platforms, has scored with an additional $25 million in capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2014/10/oak-hcft-partners-to-lead-25-mln-round-for-limeade/
Oct 27 2014

Phreesia, which offers software to assist with patient sign-in and payment collection, has raised another $30 million in capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2014/10/phreesia-nets-30-mln-in-llr-led-round/
Oct 27 2014

MTS Health Investors has connected with myNEXUS to make an undisclosed venture investment.  myNEXUS is a care management vendor.

https://www.pehub.com/2014/10/mts-invests-in-mynexus/
Oct 27 2014

Prudential Capital has prudently (hopefully) invested an additional $38 million in MediGain, which provides revenue cycle management services for health care providers.

https://www.pehub.com/2014/10/prudential-capital-invests-38-mln-in-medigain/
Oct 27 2014

Kareo, the provider of practice management and EHR software, has gained an additional $15 million in financing.

https://www.pehub.com/2014/10/escalate-capital-partners-backs-medical-office-software-provider-kareo/
Oct 27 2014

Emergency Medicine Business Intelligence has received additional financing to support its data analytics software for health systems with emergency rooms.

https://www.pehub.com/2014/10/cortlandt-private-capitals-goldstein-and-saxenas-beta-operators-fund-back-embi/
Oct 23 2014

Practice Fusion, a vendor of cloud-based EHRs, has captured an additional $2.5 million from investors.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/10/cloud-ehr-developer-practice-fusion-raises-2-5m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=b623312471-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-b623312471-67648197
Oct 22 2014

TeamHealth, the health care staffing company, has acquired PhysAssist, which offers scribe services to physicians.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20141021/NEWS/310219943?AllowView=VDl3UXk1SzVDUFdCbkJiYkY0M3hla09yamtVZER1VT0=&utm_source=link-20141021-NEWS-310219943&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hits&utm_name=top
Oct 21 2014

A survey of 14,000 nurses conducted by Black Book Research finds that over 90% are extremely unhappy with their EHRs and over 60% think their IT department is incompetent.

http://www.healthcare-informatics.com/news-item/nurses-dissatisfied-ehrs-report-finds