Mobile Health Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Over the past couple of years, there have been around 200 merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in the healthcare IT space, driven by high enterprise value and the sheer size of the industry. 49 deals came together in the first quarter of this year alone. These numbers make health IT the highest performing industry in terms of M&A activity in the consumer and retail space, and the second highest in the infrastructure/industrial space.

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Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The Justice Department and Novo Nordisk announced yesterday the conclusion of a series of civil actions against the drugmaker to settle allegations of unethical marketing practices connected with the marketing of Victoza, a Type 2 diabetes drug. Under the agreement , Novo Nordisk agrees to pay the federal and state governments $46.5 million for allegedly violating the False Claims Act and give up $12.15 million in profits made on Victoza sales for allegedly violating the Federal Food Drug and Co

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ACA Times

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions will start deliberations on a bipartisan bill to address issues with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) aimed at shoring up government health exchanges and providing certainty that subsidy payments to insurance companies that offer health insurance plans on the exchanges will continue. The committee’s first step is to hold hearings on healthcare policy this week.

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