Clarify Health clearly attracts investors, getting $57 million in new funding for its somewhat murky business of the usual data analytics, patient engagement, etc. for creating better patient care plans.
Medicare primary care clinic operator Oak Street Health has acquired Ampersand's Medicare clinics in Philadelphia as part of its entry into the market.
Note this, Notable Health notably gets not debt in the form of notes but real cash financing of $13.5 million, and I would note that the company notes that it digitizes and automates physician patient communication, including notes.
Harris Computer Systems, a large IT vendor, has announced that its health care group will acquire Iatris Systems, a provider of services to help hospitals maximize their IT systems (tells you something when companies make as much trying to help people figure out how to use their software as they do selling the software in the first place).
Cricket Health chirps along, gathering $24 million in a new funding round to support better care for ESRD patients, including starting new dialysis centers.
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Health information system vendor Medicare is buying Rock-Pond Solutions, a provider of business intelligence and analytics tools for the home infusion and DME industries.
Sempre Health gets a new round of financing, $8 million, for its software that interacts between health care providers and drug manufacturers to help adjust prices for behavioral health medications.
Bridge Connector, which helps health care firms integrate information and functionality across disparate software systems, has raised additional capital in the amount of $5.5 million.
Rural Partners in Medicine, which arranges for primary care and specialty physicians to provide care in rural areas, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from a PE firm.
One Medical, which offers a technology-based platform for health care, including virtual visits and in-person provider offices, garners a massive new investment of $350 million.
Paladina Health gathers a whopping $165 million in capital to support its direct primary care model of providing health benefits. Any pal a Dina is a pal of mine with that kind of checkbook.
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