California's workers' comp costs could drop by over $120 million annually if it used a closed formulary for drugs, according to a California Workers' Compensation Institute study.
MedBox, which is developing an automated dispensing machine for marijuana, has raised $2.5 million, hitting a high in financing, with individuals jointly putting in the money for this stone-cool product.
Physicians near the end of their work days are more likely to write inappropriate prescriptions, according to research in JAMA Internal Medicine, an example of what is referred to as "decision fatigue."
EpharmaSolutions, which offers software to help with clinical trial data gathering and analysis, is being acquired by WIRB-Copernicus Group, a provider of regulatory and ethical review services.
CMS will be penalizing over 2600 hospitals in 2015 for their hospital readmission rates, notwithstanding an overall reduction in readmissions, further pointing our how wrong-headed the initiative is.
A brief report in the American Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy finds that greater medication adherence is associated with medical cost reductions that more than offset the cost of the drugs.
Zywave, which provides employee benefits software, has acquired Plan Doc Builder, which helps employers generate ERISA compliant health plan documents.
I am clearly too dated to understand today's investing world. Glow, which provides a fertility tracking app, has raised $17 million. (Insert pregnant pause)
The world keeps getting creepier. Beyond Verbal has raised $2.8 million in financing to expand its service of analyzing emotions from raw voice files. While the health applications may be great, some other uses are troubling.
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.