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 Vita Advisors on Monday, January 9, 2012
Quest Diagnostics Completes Acquisition of S.E.D. Medical Laboratories
Tags: Laboratory, M&A
by Vita Advisors on Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Cogent HMG, the nation’s largest private hospitalist provider, announced that it has acquired The Intensivist Group, a Lake Zurich, IL-based provider of hospital critical care services.
Tags: M&A
by Kevin Roche on Friday, April 22, 2011
Happy Easter and welcome to our latest Potpourri, which will raise you up with information on workplace wellness, hospital pricing, clinical decision support systems, using HIT to save on drug development costs, CMS’ quality improvement programs and health care M&A activity.
Tags: Care Management, Drugs, Health Care Quality, HIT, Hospital, M&A, Pay For Performance, Workplace
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, November 25, 2010
There you are, relaxing on a holiday and holiday weekend and for some reason you feel compelled to browse the internet and come across our Thanksgiving potpourri, hopefully not a turkey, but stuffed with edible data, including HHS’ final rule on MLRs; the AMAs survey on prior authorization; principles for ACOs, how to use research studies, Humana’s acquisition of Concentra and an explanation of why health care costs keep going up. Happy Thanksgiving!
Tags: Accountable Care Organization, Care Management, Health Care Costs, Health Insurance, HIT, M&A, MLR, Physicians, Workplace
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, July 31, 2010
A lot of great items in this week’s potpourri, covering the acquisition of HealthGrades, what encourages men to get screenings, potential cheating on pay-for-performance schemes, the problems of a multi-payer system, improving heart failure care, Canada’s experience with EHRs and autonomous robot surgery.
Tags: HIT, M&A, Medicaid, Medical Care, Pay For Performance, Payor, Wellness and Prevention
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, July 17, 2010
Another week, another potpourri, this time with items on workers’ compensation drug spending, benefit consulting firm mergers, hospital readmissions, geographic variation in spending and use of mobile vans to deliver health care.
Tags: Drugs, Health Care Costs, Hospital, M&A, Medical Care, Workers Compensation
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, June 12, 2010
Another potpourri of health care items, including telemedicine, mergers and acquisitions, unnecessary medical care, Massachusetts struggle with health insurance rates and health costs, e-visits, and a different suggestion for reforming the system.
Tags: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, HIT, M&A, Telemedicine
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, February 11, 2010
Medco’s acquisition of DNA Direct, a genetic testing management company, may be a reaction to an earlier CVS Caremark transaction, but is also a recognition of the looming flood of genomic information and products that will usher in the era of personalized medicine.
Tags: Care Management, M&A, Personalized Medicine
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Inverness Medical has agreed to acquire Free & Clear, a provider of smoking cessation and other wellness services.
Tags: Disease Management, M&A, Medical Care, Services, Wellness and Prevention
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GE Healthcare announced Wednesday morning the acquisition of MedPlexus
acquisition of Wellsphere