Aug 04 2014

A review of breast cancer screening in JAMA summarizes current recommendations and outlines the need for further advances.

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1853137
Aug 04 2014

Health Care Service Corporation released findings of a study which it says show that members who switched from traditional coverage to a high deductible plan had significant cost savings and used wellness and other health management tools more often.

http://www.benefitspro.com/2014/07/31/cdhp-analysis-shows-cost-savings
Aug 01 2014

Physical therapy is widely prescribed for patients with hip arthritis pain.  A study in JAMA suggests that this is probably a waste of money.  A sham therapy was actually more effective than real physical therapy, perhaps an extreme example of placebo effect.  I love these kinds of studies.

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1872817
Aug 01 2014

According to ZS Associates, physicians continue to make themselves less accessible to drug company sales representatives, with 49% placing moderate to strong restrictions on access compared to only 23% in 2008.

http://www.physiciansbriefing.com/Article.asp?AID=690176
Jul 31 2014

PE firm Great Hills Partners has acquired a majority stake in Qualifacts, a provider of EHR and billing software for behavioral health.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/07/great-hill-invests-in-qualifacts/
Jul 31 2014

A ResearchandMarkets report says that the health care analytics market will see 25% annual growth over the next five years.

http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/3l24ql/healthcare
Jul 31 2014

Pharmacy benefit manager Envision has acquired a competitor, MedTrak Services.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/07/tpg-backed-envision-agrees-to-buy-medtrak/
Jul 30 2014

Privacy analytics has received an additional $3.5 million in financing to advance its business of helping providers anonymize data to comply with privacy regulations.

http://venturebeat.com/2014/07/22/privacy-analytics-raises-3-5m-for-health-data-anonymization/
Jul 30 2014

Azeala Health, which provides cloud-based software for health systems, has merged with simplifyMD, a vendor of EHRs.

http://www.azaleahealth.com/azalea-health-announces-merger-simplifymd/
Jul 30 2014

A Viewpoint in JAMA summarizes e-visit companies and explores issues associated with their use that might affect quality.

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1853167
Jul 30 2014

Mednet Solutions, a provider of clinical trial management and electronic data capture software, has received a $4 million investment to grow its business.

http://www.mednetstudy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2014-July-Arrowroot-Investment-in-MedNet-Solutions_FINAL.pdf
Jul 30 2014

Proteus, the maker of the "wired" pill that tracks compliance by reporting if it has been digested, has digested another  $172 million of financing.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140729/NEWS/307299945?AllowView=VDl3UXk1TytDUDJCbkJiYkY0M3hlMFNyaGtVZER1TT0=&utm_source=link-20140729-NEWS-307299945&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hits&utm_name=top
Jul 30 2014

According to a Black Book survey, hospitals are greatly increasing their use of coding and documentation vendors.

http://www.fiercehealthit.com/press-releases/clinical-documentation-improvement-heats-half-us-hospitals-expect-be-prepar?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
Jul 29 2014

Now here is a spooky one--Emulate makes "organs on a chip" to help drug companies analyze and understand living tissue reactions to experimental compounds and has raised $12 million for that business.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/07/emulate-secures-12-mln-series-a/
Jul 29 2014

Another company, PhysIQ, offering health care predictive analytics has raised $4.6 million in funding.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/07/lionbird-leads-series-a-round-for-physiq/