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Lessons From Britain’s Health Information Technology Fiasco

Health Evolution Partners — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:40:00 +0000

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

David Brailer: In Health Care, It’s Not All About the Big Ideas.

Health Evolution Partners — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:57:00 +0000

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

Dealtalk: Aetna-Cigna deal? Obstacles yes, but benefits too

Health Evolution Partners — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:56:00 +0000

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

Privacy Concerns, Provider Adoption Faulted for Demise of Google Health

Health Evolution Partners — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:00:00 +0000

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.

Read the full .pdf article here

Dell's Future Beyond the PC Business

Health Evolution Partners — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:00:00 +0000

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

Hot healthcare investing trends for 2011

Health Evolution Partners — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:00:00 +0000

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

Aetna Makes $500M Wager on HIE, but Will Providers Trust Insurers With Clinical Data?

Health Evolution Partners — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:00:00 +0000

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

VC Firms See Potential in Health Services, But Investments Under Reform Are Risky

Health Evolution Partners — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:00:00 +0000

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

Former Health Czar Talks Online Medical Records

Health Evolution Partners — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 21:19:00 +0000

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.

The Wellness Industry as an Echo of the Internet in the 1990s

Health Evolution Partners — Sun, 23 May 2010 15:56:00 +0000

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