Wellth garners some wealth, getting $5.1 millionth in new fundingth to build a businessth to use behavioral ecomomicsth to support adherenceth to care plansth. Here's to your healthth!!
Britain-based Medopad, which has an app that allows remote monitoring of vital signs through wearables, is buying US-based Sherbit, which offers a similar service.
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.
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