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Oct 28 2014

Optum, the non-health plan business of UnitedHealth Group, is purchasing Alere Health, the division on Alere that provides wellness programs for employers and health plan enrollees, for a massive $600 million.  The acquisitions which led to Alere Health had been ill-timed for Alere and outside its core business and the company is fighting off a hostile takeover.
Oct 28 2014

Changes in emergency care malpractice standards in three states did not appear to affect intensity of practice or hospital admissions.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1313308
Oct 28 2014

Vitals has acquired Compass Healthcare.  Both companies are in the business of providing health care cost transparency and comparison solutions.

http://www.vitals.com/about/posts/press-center/press-releases/vitals-acquires-compass-healthcare-advisers
Oct 28 2014

Limeade, a provider of employee wellness and health engagement platforms, has scored with an additional $25 million in capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2014/10/oak-hcft-partners-to-lead-25-mln-round-for-limeade/
Oct 27 2014

Phreesia, which offers software to assist with patient sign-in and payment collection, has raised another $30 million in capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2014/10/phreesia-nets-30-mln-in-llr-led-round/
Oct 27 2014

MTS Health Investors has connected with myNEXUS to make an undisclosed venture investment.  myNEXUS is a care management vendor.

https://www.pehub.com/2014/10/mts-invests-in-mynexus/
Oct 27 2014

Prudential Capital has prudently (hopefully) invested an additional $38 million in MediGain, which provides revenue cycle management services for health care providers.

https://www.pehub.com/2014/10/prudential-capital-invests-38-mln-in-medigain/
Oct 27 2014

Kareo, the provider of practice management and EHR software, has gained an additional $15 million in financing.

https://www.pehub.com/2014/10/escalate-capital-partners-backs-medical-office-software-provider-kareo/
Oct 27 2014

Emergency Medicine Business Intelligence has received additional financing to support its data analytics software for health systems with emergency rooms.

https://www.pehub.com/2014/10/cortlandt-private-capitals-goldstein-and-saxenas-beta-operators-fund-back-embi/
Oct 23 2014

Practice Fusion, a vendor of cloud-based EHRs, has captured an additional $2.5 million from investors.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/10/cloud-ehr-developer-practice-fusion-raises-2-5m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=b623312471-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-b623312471-67648197
Oct 22 2014

TeamHealth, the health care staffing company, has acquired PhysAssist, which offers scribe services to physicians.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20141021/NEWS/310219943?AllowView=VDl3UXk1SzVDUFdCbkJiYkY0M3hla09yamtVZER1VT0=&utm_source=link-20141021-NEWS-310219943&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hits&utm_name=top
Oct 21 2014

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A small amount of capital has been raised by Limelight Health for its technology to help insurance agents gather and present information on health insurance plans.

Oct 21 2014

A survey of 14,000 nurses conducted by Black Book Research finds that over 90% are extremely unhappy with their EHRs and over 60% think their IT department is incompetent.

http://www.healthcare-informatics.com/news-item/nurses-dissatisfied-ehrs-report-finds
Oct 21 2014

CareSync has yet another mobile app to let people collect and share health information and has received $4.5 in capital to support it.

https://www.pehub.com/2014/10/caresync-raises-4-5-mln/
Oct 20 2014

Data from CVS' Minute Clinics published in the American Journal of Managed Care finds that the quality of care at the clinics is as good or better than that at urgent care centers or ERs.

http://www.cvshealth.com/newsroom/press-releases/cvs-health-research-institute-data-shows-excellent-quality-care-minuteclinic