Large workers' comp managed care vendor Mitchell International has acquired Consumer Health Connections, which provides telehealth services for the workers' comp market.
Wellness and analytics provider Welltok pays $80 million to acquire Tea Leaves Health, which offers "engagement" software for hospitals to connect with physicians and consumers.
Azeala Health, a provider of IT software to health care entities, brightens its future by acquiring Prognosis Healthcare, which offers EMRs to rural hospitals.
Here is another firm trying to acquire its way to success. Atos, a French IT outsourcing firm, is buying three US health IT consultants, Pursuit Healthcare, Conduent Healthcare Provider Consulting and Conduent Breakaway.
Don't be a fool, invest in JOOL, its a gem, get it. Apparently some investors did, shining up JOOL Health with $4.5 million in capital, apparently, as best I can tell from the gibberish in the press release, for something that has to do with digital and patient engagement.
Express Scripts is buying EviCore for $3.6 billion. The purchase suggests that ESI recognizes that the PBM business is losing steam and facing price pressures and a move to broader care management capabilities may provide better future returns.
Trillian Health apparently intents to acquire a trillion companies, as it has made three recent acquisitions to bolster its health data and analytics business, including Expression Health Analytics, Aegis Health, and Clariture Health.
According to an AHRQ Statistical Brief, 35% of child visits to a physician were paid for by Medicaid and the average payment per visit by Medicaid was $88 less than that paid by private insurance. Hard-to-imagine that many physicians will continue to serve children covered by Medicaid with kind of gap.
Research at JAMA Internal Medicine suggests that doctors who have a financial interest in imaging equipment and a history of low-value imaging, are most likely to do additional low-value imaging for low back and head pain.
According to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, comparing online quality ratings of 78 doctors to more objective quality performance measures indicates that online reviews aren't worth much. This is likely because consumers rate quality on much they like a physician and other intangibles.
Patients may be wise, but we will see about investors, as PatientWisdom grabs and undisclosed amount of funding for its app that lets patients share health care stories. Ahhh, isn't that cute.
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.