Frazier Healthcare Partners Announces Acquisition of RevSpring
Investment in Leading Communications and Payment Solutions Provider
Frazier Healthcare Partners (Frazier), a Seattle-based, healthcare-focused investment firm, announced today that it has completed its acquisition of RevSpring (or the Company), a leading provider of end-to-end communication and payment solutions servicing healthcare and financial services companies, from leading private equity firm GTCR. Frazier is joined in the transaction by NEA, 22C Capital, and RevSpring’s senior leadership team.
The partnership with Frazier will leverage Frazier’s investment, experience, and deep industry expertise to accelera...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 16, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT 22C Capital Christina Reszka Frazier Frazier Healthcare Partners Goodwin Proctor LLP GTCR Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Kirkland & Ellis LLP Morgan Stanley NEA RevSpring Roger Davis Sco Source Type: blogs
Access, a Leader in Information Management Services, to Significantly Accelerate its Digital Solutions Strategy with Acquisition of Triyam, an Innovative Data and Software Business
This Acquisition Marks a Major Milestone for Access as it Continues to Rapidly Expand its Platform to Address Critical Data and Records Management Needs
Triyam Complements Access’ Robust Records Archiving and Compliance Management Capabilities with Expertise in Managing Electronic Health Records
Access Information Management (Access), the world’s largest privately-held integrated information management services provider, today announced it has acquired Triyam, a rapidly growing software business that provides expert data management solutions for healthcare organizations. Through this acquisition, Access significantly a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 15, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Access Access Information Management Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Luka Salamunic Sudhakar Mohanraj Tony Skarupa Triyam Source Type: blogs
Too many older adults are taking risky sedative medications
A recent investigation in Quebec uncovered a concerning trend: benzodiazepines — medications commonly used for sleep or anxiety — are being overprescribed. This investigation has prompted the Quebec College of Physicians to closely examine the usage of these medications. But this issue extends beyond Quebec’s borders; across Canada, these medications are being prescribed at alarming rates.
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Too many older adults are taking risky sedative medications originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 14, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Wendy Levinson, MD and Christine Soong, MD Tags: Meds Geriatrics Medications Source Type: blogs
Saving lives with naloxone: perspectives from the frontline
According to a recent report by the Stanford-Lancet Commission on the North American Opioid Crisis, “more than 600,000 people in the USA and Canada have died from opioid overdose since 1999, and a staggering 1.2 million more are estimated to die due to overdose by 2029.” The opioid crisis has reinforced hard lessons learned in
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Saving lives with naloxone: perspectives from the frontline originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 14, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: David I. Deyhimy, MD & Forces Are Moving In Ways Which Might Severely Damage Our GP Led Health System.
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Are we heading for a physician associate moment?
By
Holly Payne
The
AMA and GP colleges have warned that scope-of-practice reforms could result in
the kind of implosion seen in the UK health system.
The
UK and Canada are valuable case studies for allied health scope of practice –
but not for the reason that the scope of practice review commissioners (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - April 14, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Interview with Stefany Shaheen: Revolutionizing diabetes care through cell therapies
I had the extraordinary opportunity to chat with Stefany Shaheen, the Chief Strategy Officer of Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) and BioFab USA, about the transformative potential of cell therapies for individuals living with diabetes. Stefany shared her remarkable journey, insights on cell therapies’ current status, approval challenges, and how the diabetes community can contribute to advancing research in this field.
A few months before this discussion with Stefany, I had the opportunity to hear Dean Kamen speak at the recent ...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - April 1, 2024 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Mental Illness, Health Care, and Assisted Death: Examining Parameters for Expanding or Restricting MAID Under Canada's Charter and Federal System
Mary J. Shariff (University of Manitoba), Derek Ross (Christian Legal Fellowship), Trudo Lemmens (University of Toronto), Mental Illness, Health Care, and Assisted Death: Examining Parameters for Expanding or Restricting MAID Under Canada ' s Charter and Federal System, Man. L. Rev. (2024):... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 23, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Endava to Acquire GalaxE Solutions to Boost Its Position in North America Healthcare With Delivery from India
Endava, a leading technology services company combining world-class engineering, industry expertise, and a people-centric mindset, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% ownership of GalaxE Group, Inc. (GalaxE), a global IT and business solutions provider headquartered in New Jersey, United States.
Founded by Tim Bryan over 30 years ago, GalaxE has been singularly focused on driving digital transformation for Fortune 500 companies in the healthcare, financial services, and retail industries.
When completed, the transaction will add approximately 1,650 employees and provide several key strategic benefits to...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 21, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP BofA Securities Endava GalaxE GalaxE Group Inc. Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A John Cotterell JP Morgan Securities LLC Tim Bryan White & Case LLP Source Type: blogs
PocketHealth Raises $33M USD in Series B Funding to Transform Medical Image Exchange and Patient Experience
Funding Round Led by Round13 Capital with Participation from Deloitte Ventures, Samsung Next, and Existing Investors Questa Capital and Radical Ventures
PocketHealth — the Leading Patient-Centric Image Exchange Platform — Gives Patients Instant Access to their Medical Images, Leverages AI to Create a Unique Healthcare Experience for Each Patient, and Enables Seamless Image Exchange Between Providers
Series B Funding will Accelerate the Company’s Investment in AI to Enable Intelligent Image Exchange and Personalize Every Patient’s Care Journey
PocketHealth is Trusted by More than 1.5 Million Patients at over 775 Hea...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 20, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Brahm Klar Deloitte Ventures Harsh Nayyar Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Miranda Ferris PocketHealth Questa Capital Radical Ventures Rishi Nayyar Round13 Round13 Capita Source Type: blogs
This is Planet Earith – Starling murmurations
At the end of February, I got wind of there being very large numbers of Common Starling murmurating at a local nature reserve – RSPB Ouse Fen (Earith). I got a few photos on an evening visit. There were probably half a million birds, it was quite astonishing. I based my estimate on counts I’ve done of photographs of smaller flocks and extrapolating to the huge patches of sky that were covered with birds on the evening.
I got some nice photos at sunset but my phone video was very smeary and low-res. So, a second visit was essential. Unfortunately, rumour had it that the numbers the next night were smaller, that...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 4, 2024 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
Fee-For-Service: Predominant, Winning & Stupid
By MATTHEW HOLT
In recent days and weeks, there have been three stories that have really brought home to me the inanity of how we run our health care system. Spoiler alert, they have the commonality that they all are made problematic by payment per individual transaction—better known as fee-for-service.
First, several health insurers who sold their reputation to Wall Street as being wizards at understanding how doctors and patients behave had the curtain pulled back to reveal the man pulling the levers was missing a dashboard or dial or three. It happened to United, Humana and more, but I’ll focus on Agilon becau...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Matthew Holt Change Healthcare Colorado fee for service Humana UCHealth United HealthGroup Source Type: blogs
Digital Health, Menopause, And The $150 Billion Ignorance
The idea of this story came from personal experience. During the past year, I have spent countless hours and a bucketload of money trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with my health. I was feeling worse and worse, having various symptoms, totally inexplicable with my impeccable test results. During this journey, not a single doctor asked or suggested that my symptoms may come from entering perimenopause – the stage of life of women preceding menopause.
I am 47 years old, and as I have learned since then, extremely average in starting to have perimenopause symptoms at the age of 47. Also very average ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 22, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Lifestyle medicine female health menopause tech Source Type: blogs
So what can we do about health care costs?
By MATTHEW HOLT
Last week Jeff Goldsmith wrote a great article in part explaining why health care costs in the US went up so much between 1965 and 2010. He also pointed out that health care has been the same portion of GDP for more than a decade (although we haven’t had a major recession in that time other than the Covid 2020 blip when it went up to 19%). However, it’s worth remembering that we are spending 17.3% of GDP while the other main OECD countries are spending 11-12%. Now it’s true that the US has lots of social problems that show up in heath spending and also that those other countries probably spend ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 20, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Matthew Holt Buzz Cooper Datmouth health spending Jeff Goldsmith John Wennberg Medicare Price controls Source Type: blogs
Blame game in U.S. health care: Who ’ s responsible and what ’ s the solution?
The perception that our U.S. health care system is broken has become nearly fact among health care workers and the public alike. Many other countries are facing similar challenges, beyond the recent spotlight on our Canadian and British friends across the pond. The issue remains: Who are we to blame and more importantly, what can
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Blame game in U.S. health care: Who’s responsible and what’s the solution? originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 16, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Alejandro Badia, MD Tags: Policy Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
When Death Becomes Therapy: Canada ’s Troubling Normalization of Health Care Provider Ending of LifeWhen Death Becomes Therapy: Canada’s Troubling Normalization of Health Care Provider Ending of Life
Trudo Lemmens (University of Toronto), When Death Becomes Therapy: Canada ’s Troubling Normalization of Health Care Provider Ending of Life, 23 Am. J. Bioethics (2023): In a recent article in the American Journal of Bioethics, Daryl Pullman contrasts the assisted suicide... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 10, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
