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Notable, a maker of voice-powered health care, has raised $3 million in funding.
https://www.pehub.com/2018/05/notable-rakes-3-mln-greylock-partners-led-round/
Healthmetrics, which offers businesses software to help manage their health coverage costs, attracts $1 million in new capital.
https://vulcanpost.com/639086/healthmetrics-funding-malaysia-2018/
Suki gets $20 million in new capital to provide a digital assistant to help doctors treat patients.
https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2018/suki-funding-voice-assistant-doctors-investment/
Coviu gets $1 million in a financing round aimed at providing in-home video consultations for patients.
https://www.csiro.au/en/News/News-releases/2018/Coviu-raises-1m-interactive-digital-consultations-healthcare-sector
mPulse Mobile has a heartbeat, securing another $11 million in capital for its mobile app that supposedly engages and motivates consumers around health.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/05/prweb15466485.htm
Allocate Software garners an undisclosed amount of investment from a PE firm to support growth of its health care staffing business.
https://www.pehub.com/2018/04/vista-invests-allocate-software/
Owlet wisely hoots up a fresh $24 million in capital to support its baby sleep monitoring and biometric information provision to helicopter parents.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/05/prweb15471693.htm
Casetabs reels in $6 million in fresh capital for its surgery coordination software.
https://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/news/2018/05/03/health-care-startup-casetabs-raises-funding.html
Lyra Health pulls in another $45 billion for its service of helping coordinate mental health care.
https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/05/07/1497386/0/en/Lyra-Health-Secures-45-Million-In-Series-B-Financing-To-Deliver-Effective-Mental-Health-Care-To-Employees.html
Relax, just dial up a massage from Soothe, which raises $32 million to provide on-demand massage therapy from a network. Keep your dirty thoughts to yourself.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/02/massage-on-demand-company-soothe-raises-31-million/
Wellist connects patients to non-medical support services (using guess what, an app! who would have thought?) and raises $10 million in a new funding round.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/wellist-closes-10-million-series-a-funding-300644611.html
Johnson & Johnson is acquiring C-SATS, a startup which provides performance grades skills training technology for surgeons.
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/johnson-johnson-acquires-c-sats-university-washington-spinout-grades-surgeon-performance/
Takeda is buying Shire for $62 million, uniting two large drugmakers and probably ensuring even higher drug prices as a result.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/takeda-pharmaceutical-agrees-to-buy-shire-in-62-billion-deal-1525761607
Home health care vendor Cera, which is based in the UK, has raised $17 million in a funding round.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/02/homecare-services-startup-cera-announces-17m-series-a/
Telemedicine startup DashMd quickly speeds to funding, getting $500,000 to help hospitals help patients with care after discharge.
https://betakit.com/dash-md-raises-500000-to-help-hospitals-communicate-aftercare-to-patients/
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.