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Headlines for Feb 1 - 4
- Posted February 4th 2009
- by Janice
ENURGI, which presented at Health Content08’s Innovators Showcase, has been acquired by Univita. Matt Holt provides more details in this post.
Research firm, User Centric, posts results of recent study of consumers’ ease of use and utility of GoogleHealth and Microsoft’s HealthVault personal health records platforms.
Federal court has denied the request of Consumers’ Checkbook to gain access to Medicare claims data to compile data to help consumers evaluate doctors in an appeal filed by AMA and HHS. Earlier it was reported that Consumers’ Checkbook wanted to help consumers identify physicians based on the frequency with which they preformed procedures. Judges said FOIA were intended to shed light on gov’t operations, not private sector.
A Boston event on Feb. 26 with focus on e-health and health policy, moderated by Scott Kirsner of Boston Globe and with great roster of Boston-area healthcare industry notables, including Charlie Baker, Jonathan Bush, e-patient Dave and others.
Article describes push by Medco to increase usage of mailorder pharmacies for efficiency gains.
Quotes Clayton Christensen, Matt Holt, Uwe Reinhardt and others emphasizing the need to re-focus incentives of hospitals and care providers toward patient-centered care–and away from fee for services–when considering Health IT investments and implementations. Uses Kaiser as a model.
The Greenspun Corp acquires majority stake. To-date Mochila has raised over $30M from Charles River Ventures, Belo, Mission Ventures and others. Mochila provides an online syndication and ecommerce platform for content. Participating publishers include Belo, BabyCenter, The Knot, Topix, Hearst, Rodale, MSNBC, Hachette, Tribune, Reuters, AP and others.
Not health specific, but Glam Media doesn focus on women’s publications which attract health and wellness advertisers. Glam owns a range of publishing sites and serves as ad network for many others.
Vital Juice, publisher of free daily health and wellness newsletters, receives funding from The Pilot Group, a NY PE firm that backed DailyCandy and other ad-supported online companies.
David Kibbe and Brian Klepper, in an open letter to Obama, argue against putting healthcare investment $$ into current electronic medical records systems without careful consideration.
Navigenics, a personal genomics company, offers 2 new services. First for physicians to receive patient genetic results online (with patient approval) for no cost. Second is a $499 annual service to test an individual’s predisposition to 10 common diseases. Navigenics’ original gene testing service was $2500.
Round-up of funding news for Boston-area companies, most of which are pharma/bio or med device companies.
Seattle-based Ekos, which makes an ultrasound blood clot dissolver, raises an additional $12.5 mill to help reach breakeven by 2010. Has already raised more than $100M.
Study finds that only 25% of surveyed patients could name their doctor–and 60% of those who could were incorrect! Implications not obvious.
Some details on terms of Pfizer’s $68B deal to buy Wyeth
MedAvant, a RCM services provider, hires new CTO. MedAvant has been active in hiring and bolt-on acquisitions since it was acquired by Marlin Equity Partners last year.
Avatar International, a provider of patient satisfaction and other quality improvement measurement services to hospitals, is name preferred vendor by University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), an alliance of 103 academic medical centers.
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