Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 10:40AM Government press releases tend to be bland, earnest blather. But not one posted on the British Department of Health’s Web site last Thursday. Its headline: “Dismantling the NHS National Programme for IT.”
Read the full New York Times article here
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 12:57PM Health-care venture capitalists are often drawn to the bold promise of recent medical advances, but those hunting for their next fund should emphasize solutions within close reach when pitching David Brailer, America’s first digital-health czar and the chairman of investment firm Health Evolution Partners.
Read the full article from The Wall Street Journal here
Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 5:56PM They were just a few brief comments at an investor conference but they were enough to set the health insurance industry abuzz: Could Aetna buy Cigna?
The mention of a deal that would merge two of the biggest U.S. health insurers and could be worth $16 billion has Wall Street talking about its logic and whether the Obama administration and other regulators would even allow it.
Read the full .pdf article from Reuters here
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 8:00AM SAN FRANCISCO—Sluggish consumer and physician adoption, policies that favor corporate ownership of personal information, and privacy concerns are some of the reasons cited by health care industry experts for Google Inc.’s decision in June to pull the plug on its Google Health personal health record service.
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Monday, May 2, 2011 at 8:00AM Michael Dell built his company and his fortune in the personal computer business. But the company’s future is increasingly going to rest on services and the bigger gear used in data centers — server computers, storage and networking equipment.
That was Mr. Dell’s overall theme in a pair of interviews on Friday, one onstage at a health technology and investment conference in California and one afterward.
The company has changed considerably, especially since Mr. Dell returned as chief executive in January 2007, though its reputation is still as a PC company. “A lot of people think of Dell as what it was five or 10 years ago,” he said. “But we’ve moved much more into the core of information technology, into the data center.”
Services are big part of the shift. In fact, 44,000 of the company’s 103,000 employees are in its services business. And it was no quirk that Mr. Dell appeared at a gathering of health industry companies, start-ups, policy officials and investors, held annually by Health Evolution Partners, a fund that invests in health companies.
Read the full .pdf article from The New York Times here
Thursday, December 30, 2010 at 8:00AM Dr. David J. Brailer is the chairman for San Francisco-based venture firm Health Evolution Partners and served as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under President George W. Bush. The views expressed are his own.
Read the full article on blogs.retuers.com here
Monday, December 13, 2010 at 8:00AM Aetna Inc. on Dec. 6 said that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Medicity a Utah-based health information exchange (HIE) vendor for about $500 million.
Read the full .pdf article from HEALTH PLAN WEEK here
Monday, November 1, 2010 at 9:00AM The health reform law - and the year leading up to its enactment - put a big chill on venture capital (VC) investments in the health services sector.
Read the full .pdf article from HEALTH PLAN WEEK here
Friday, October 22, 2010 at 2:19PM Wall Street Journal’s Jeanette Borzo talks with Dr. David Brailer, America’s first digital-health czar, about consumers’ efforts to computerize their own health records.
View the video interview here.
Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 8:56AM At a health innovation and investment conference in California earlier this month, there was a lot of energy and excitement about the emerging health and wellness industry. The wellness movement, as it’s called, is seen as both a social phenomenon and a big investment opportunity.
Read the full .pdf article from The Wall Street Journal here