Jiff has received an additional $18 million investment. Jiff describes itself as an aggegrator of access to mobile health apps and, this is a literal quote, "provides each employee an individualized health incentives program through an addictive mobile experience." OMG, sounds like substance abuse treatment will be needed after using Jiff.
Funding for digital health startups, apparently anything your fingers or toes are involved in, will reach $6.5 billion by 2017, according to Accenture.
Global consumer powerhouse Philips is breaking up its business to focus more on health care, with the lighting division being spun off and health care and consumer goods units being retained in one new company called HealthTech.
And in news which is apparently related to the just previous post, HCA, another large hospital company is buying another software company, PatientKeeper, which automates physician note-taking and other workflow. Hmmm, hospital companies buying physician-oriented software, could they possibly be trying to lock those docs up even tighter?
Conifer Health Solutions, a division of Tenet Healthcare, has acquired SPi Healthcare, which provides software and services for physician office management and billing, for $235 million.
COTA, Inc. (must be an impressive company with all those caps, or maybe that damned key to the left of a just got stuck, oh, or I get it, the release is about raising CAPITAL) has received an investment of $3.7 million to assist in its offering of support services for oncologist in value-based reimbursement schemes.
iHealth has raised $25 million for its business described as "personal mobile health products." Powered wheelchairs maybe? In connection with the financing it will be reorganized to become a sub of something called Andon Health.
According to research firm IQ4I the global health care analytics market will be worth $20.8 billion by 2020. Note that, not $20.7, not $20.9 but a clear $20.8 billion.
Wellness firm Viverae has acquired OneHealth, which offers online social communities to help with behavior change.
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SureScripts has substantially expanded the use of its network for electronic drug prior authorizations, signing up the two largest PBMs and several technology companies. Electronic PAs are much more common as specialty use grows.
Aon Hewitt offers a private insurance exchange to clients and claims that the 18 companies covering 600,000 people who are users are experiencing lower health care spending. The firm says that health costs are projected to grow 3.5% in 2015 for these users, compared to industry-wide estimates of 6.5% to 8% increases. But it appears that the "savings" are due largely to enrollees choosing less-rich benefit designs, which means they were paying more for their health care out-of-pocket.
Leading Medicare Advantage patient health status assessment firm Matrix Health is being acquired by Providence Service Corporation for $400 million. Providence provides a variety of health and non-health services to governments.
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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.