Healthcare Blue Book, a healthcare price transparency tool for consumers and employers, raised $7 million from a single, strategic investor, The Martin Companies, according to Jeffrey Rice, the company's CEO. Nashville, Tennessee-based Healthcare Blue Book has been around since mid-2007, but this is its first funding raise. Price told MobiHealthNews the money will mostly be used for scale and...
Vanguard Health Systems has become the tenth company to join the Dossia Consortium, which is a non-profit organization made up of U.S. employers that seek to empower their employees to make smarter, more informed healthcare decisions by providing them with access to their healthcare data through what the consortium calls a personally-controlled health record (PCHR). That sounds a lot like a...