HISTalk

Health 2.0 2010 – Two Perspectives, One Attendee

11 October 2010

I attended my second Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco last week and find myself suffering from multiple personality disorder as a result. My multiples (only 2) are the geeky,…

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Capitalizing a New Venture: So Many Choices…

27 September 2010

Healthcare in America is all about entrepreneurship — from medical spas to physician-owned hospitals and imaging centers to million-dollar salaries for hospital execs (I agree wholeheartedly with Mr. H on…

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Ingenix: Drunken Sailor or Super Genius?

23 August 2010

It’s been an interesting time with multiple industry-shifting M&A transactions (but not much in the way of public equity activity). The big question on everyone’s mind these days is “What…

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HIMSS Health IT Venture Fair

28 March 2010

Now that the dust from HIMSS 2010 has settled, all the follow-up e-mails sent, and the trinkets and swag carefully filed away, I wanted to deliver my overdue thoughts on…

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Take-Private Transactions

26 February 2010

The end of 2009 brought a few company announcements that were particularly relevant to the investment community. Noteworthy among them were the sales of enterprise vendor QuadraMed and radiology systems…

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Ask the Chair: What is this J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference I keep hearing about?

8 January 2010

“All these HCIT companies have been issuing press releases lately informing us that they are going to present at the 28th annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. What is that and…

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The IPO Market Returns

16 November 2009

As I write this post, the IPO market continues to rock and roll. As some confidence returns, investors look for new places to put money, and perhaps dress their year-end…

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Initial Public Offerings, Part 2

19 October 2009

The IPO market for HCIT continues to show some signs of life, or at least hoped-for life, as Accretive Health filed its IPO Prospectus (known as Form S1) with the…

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Initial Public Offerings — How and Why?

14 September 2009

With the recent stock market recovery, companies are once again going public (or, as they say on the Street, “the IPO window is open”). Emdeon returned to the public market…

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How Do Equity Analysts Cover Companies?

17 August 2009

I began my Street career on a crisp autumn day as a sell-side stock analyst (well, I was an associate analyst first) covering healthcare IT companies, most of which seem…

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