The sovereign Kuwati Investment Authority has invested $100 million in NantHealth, a "cloud-based, transformational healthcare IT company". Wait, where's the mobile app? I am sure they can transform those dollars into some dreamy clouds.
Accolade, a provider of software to help consumers navigate the health system (aaaahhhhhh!) has acquired konciergeMD, which does something similar. (What the company didn't have enough "capital"? Apparently not, at least on the front end.)
RedBrick Health has raised $7.5 million, part of an intended larger financing, but oddly one of the purposes of the investment is said to be to pay executives and other employees. Weird.
Huron Consulting, which has a very large health care IT consulting segment, has acquired Vonlay consulting, which assists providers in implementing EHRs.
Cigna has said that its first wave of enrollees from the public insurance exchanges have higher health care costs than anticipated. Other insurers have indicated they think they anticipated costs and priced right, but we will see.
According to a report from MedData, physicians frequently go online to get information related to clinical issues, most frequently use search engines to aid them and say that the biggest problem they have with online health information is that patients often misunderstand what they find online.
A study in the Journal of Adolescent Health finds that young adults who obtain health insurance continue to use the ER at very high rates, and while they have higher overall health spending than their uninsured peers, they have the same level of out-of-pocket spending. You can lead em to the insurance, but you can't make em drink it right.
Press Ganey, which helps providers improve patient satisfaction and quality, is acquiring Dynamic Clinical Solutions, which helps patients collect medical information and provide it to physicians.
According to an analysis by Mark Farrah Associates, Medicare supplement enrollment continues to grow. Some experts believe Medicare supplement policies create overutilization of services.
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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.