Sleep patient volume growth could slow, according to the Fourth Quarter 2013 HME Sleep Survey. Conduced by HME Business and Needham & Company LLC. Respondents to the survey saw their sleep patient volume grow by 6.7 percent in the last 12 months (LTM), and expected...
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The Forbes Healthcare Summit 2013: The Walk-In Clinic Revolution And Obamacare
As the Affordable Care Act, private insurers and employers push less costly outpatient care, the health care industry is responding with a boom in retail clinics and urgent care centers. At the second annual Forbes Healthcare Summit, a panel of physicians and...
Leaders in Medicaid Transformation Share Innovative Practices
Healthcare leaders from across the country are coming together today in New York for the full-day conference, Driving Transformation in Medicaid: Putting Policy Into Practice. Sponsored by Treo Solutions, this free program, which runs from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the...
Simplee Grabs $10M To Carry Medical Bill Payments Into The Smartphone Era
In 2009, Tomer Shoval went on vacation with his family to Mexico, which unfortunately ended on a sour note — and one with which many travelers can empathize — they all got sick. Back in the U.S. several months later, Shoval and his wife started receiving a series of...
Numotion Acquires Wheelchairs Plus, Inc.
Numotion, formerly United Seating & Mobility and ATG Rehab, announces its acquisition of Wheelchairs Plus, Inc., a regional complex rehab provider in Minnesota. "Wheelchairs Plus is an established provider with locations in Grand Rapids and St. Cloud, MN,...
Social Networking Site for Doctors gathers $10 million in funding
Quantia, an online community for doctors and the healthcare companies that want to market to them, has $10 million more in the bank. On Tuesday, the company said it had raised $7.5 million from Safeguard Scientifics in a $10 million Series B round. Current investors,...
The Largest Study of Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Heart Failure
ResMed announced today at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2013, that SERVE-HF has completed enrollment. SERVE-HF is an international, randomized study of 1,325 participants investigating if the treatment of central sleep-disordered breathing (central sleep...
States experimenting to lower health care costs
Oregon health officials are concentrating on coordinating services and preventing hospital stays. New Jersey medical centers are rewarding doctors who can save money without jeopardizing patient care. And Massachusetts is expanding the role of physician assistants and...
ACO Coordinated Care Savings May Be Contagious
An early cost-sharing program in Massachusetts designed to cut costs for private Blue Cross Blue Shield patients also lowered costs for Medicare patients who were seen by the same providers, according to a study published last week in the Journal of the American...
Four in Maryland make Modern Healthcare list of 100 most influential
California has Kaiser Permanente. Minnesota has the Mayo Clinic. Maryland’s strength is in federal agencies. Four health care leaders in Maryland made Modern Healthcare’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the industry. Three of them lead federal...
Digital health group focusing on patient engagement attracts funding from Florida Payor and Facebook VP
A subsidiary of Florida’s largest insurer led a series B round for a digital health group that uses a selection of patient engagement tools to improve outcomes. Audax Health Solutions raised $20 million in a round led by Navigy Holdings, a subsidiary of Blue Cross and...
How tech is transforming health care
New Kaiser Permanente book reveals how to transform health care tech, leadership and education. Technology continues to dramatically propel us into a new era of care delivery. Innovations such as electronic health records (EHR), mobile health, telemedicine, telehealth...