by Kevin Roche on Friday, July 20, 2012
Our Potpourri finally returns, including items on duplicate payments in federal health programs, EHR use and malpractice claims, venture capital statistics, consumer use of online self-service applications, and a new statistical method for predictive modeling.
Tags: Consumers, Financings, Government, Health Care Costs, Health Care Quality, Malpractice
by Kevin Roche on Friday, February 3, 2012
Another Potpourri brimming with doses of useful information that you eagerly await each week, including Medicare special needs plans and patients with diabetes, health information technology venture capital funding and M & A, identifying overuse in health care, what makes a better medical group, does merging weak hospitals help them and interventions that appear to work to prevent development of diabetes.
Tags: Care Management, Chronic Disease, Financings, Health Care Costs, Hospital, M&A, Medicare, Physicians
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, January 26, 2012
Venture capital is critical to the formation and growth of small businesses and this is as true or more true for health care than it is for other industries. The annual MoneyTree Report from PriceWaterhouseCooper and the National Venture Capital Association reveals details for 2011.
Tags: Financings
by Kevin Roche on Friday, January 6, 2012
Welcome to 2012, when you can once again expect a series of high-quality Potpourris from our immense data bank! Our initial foray includes the Independence at Home CMS demo, discharge summaries and hospital readmissions, CMS’ quality measures for Medicaid patients, private equity fundraising, medical homes and cost savings for Medicaid patients and the effect of poor discharge summaries on nursing home patients.
Tags: Care Management, Financings, Health Care Quality, HomeCare, Hospital, Medicaid, medical home, Medicare, Readmissions
by Kevin Roche on Monday, July 25, 2011
The National Venture Capital Association released statistics regarding second quarter of 2011 venture capital activity. While some aspects of exits, fund-raising and investing have improved from the depth of the recession, levels are still lower than optimal to facilitate overall economic growth.
Tags: Financings, Venture Capital
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Venture capital funding has been in the doldrums since the recession began but has rebounded along with the recovery. Two new reports suggest that exits have improved, allowing a refresh of the capital pool, and that VCs are more optimistic about 2011.
Tags: Financings
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, October 21, 2010
Venture capital has been critical to the creation of innovative health care products and services, as well as to the good jobs the companies offering those products and services provide. Funding continued to be sluggish in the third quarter.
Tags: Financings
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, July 24, 2010
More midsummer musings, covering possible replacements for AWP, the effect of Part D on heart failure drug use, the VA’s telehealth programs, venture capital activity, self-management of high blood pressure, and of course, more problems with health insurance costs in Massachusetts.
Tags: Drugs, Financings, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Telemedicine
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, April 24, 2010
Another thrilling collection of health care tidbits; including patient safety, malpractice claims, physician discipline, hospital costs and charges, venture financings, employer health costs and who makes good liars.
Tags: Financings, Health Insurance, Hospital, Malpractice, Physicians
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, March 20, 2010
More weekend reading, in case spring hasn’t arrived where you are, covering personalized medicine, the OIG’s unheeded recommendations, robot surgery, hospital costs, venture funding and telemedicine.
Tags: Financings, fraud and abuse, Hospital, Personalized Medicine, Telemedicine
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Health information is hot, particularly since the stimulus bill devoted $20 billion to its expansion.
Tags: Financings, HIT
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Complete Genomics has raised $45 million in a Series D funding round.
Tags: Financings, Genomics