Universal Health Services, the large for-profit hospital chain, is acquiring Cygnet Health Care, which operates inpatient behavioral health programs in the UK, for $335 million.
HealthPort, which helps organizations with HIPAA and other compliance issues, has merged with OneSource Document, which sells information release services.
A meta-review in Telemedicine & eHealth finds that tele-monitoring of very ill chronic disease patients can reduce mortality, decrease hospital and ER use and possibly save money.
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.
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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.