Premier, the large GPO and consulting firm for health systems, is acquiring Stanson Health, which offers clinical decision support software, for $51 million.
Okay, I clearly don't understand how to name a company, but Carrot roots out $25 million in funding for its smoking cessation service. Did I mention that this is a digital health company, because they certainly did. By the way, this is a digital health blog; anyone want to give me a few million in funding.
Here's to your hellth, Wellth, as the company raises an undisclosed (i.e., small) amount of financing for its behavioral economics based medication adherence product.
Telehealth firm 98point6 is hot, raising a feverish $50 million from delirious investors to support its text-based primary care business. Eventually the company will reach room temperature.
Citra Health Solutions, which offers software to assist risk-based providers, is acquiring DataWing Software, a vendor of eligibility and payment software for capitation processes.
Two at-risk Florida primary care practices are merging their businesses in a joint venture. Genuine Health, which provides management services to primary care groups, and PrimeHealth Physicians are merging their patient pools, which will number over 12,000 Medicare members.
Mingle Analytics, which helps with Medicare performance metrics, and SilverVue, which offers services to assist providers with value-based payments, are merging.
Two large providers of non-emergency health care transportation services are combining, as LogistiCare and Circulation merge.
http://www.logisticare.com/news/
Oct262018
Ok, we will be a little careful with this one. I knew ED was a hard problem, but Roman is raising a stiff (or maybe I should say smoking) $88 million to change its name to Ro and add smoking cessation services to its offerings. Not sure what ED and smoking have in common, but no more after-sex cigarettes for their ED customers.
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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.