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A study in JAMA reveals that use of an oncology bundled payment method in Taiwan resulted in slightly lower spending and slightly better quality performance.
http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2627949
Health IT vendor Mediware is buying Kinnser Software which offers systems for home health and hospice providers.
https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/pe-backed-mediware-acquires-kinnser-software/
Medrio, a maker of software to support clinical trials, has pulled in $30 million in new funding.
http://www.crossroadstoday.com/story/35503893/medrio-inc-announces-30-million-equity-investment-from-questa-capital
Artificial intelligence for patient experience vendor NarrativeDx garners a new round of funding.
https://www.healthxventures.com/news/2017/5/11/narrativedx-builds-leading-ai-platform-for-patient-experience-secures-series-a-funding-for-continued-growth
Health care cost containment vendor Advanced Medical Pricing Solutions has been recapped by a PE firm.
http://www.fiercebiotech.com/cro/inc-research-and-inventiv-health-merge-another-major-cro-deal?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mrkid=635530&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWlRSa1ltVmhORFF4TmpNeiIsInQiOiJJUkZYWU9cL1wvSmRNeW54V0dGOURlTE11RFFDYWo4bkgwcml0UyswZm1MVGVyN1wvSVVYUkg0cTdtMWtiT2dnUWZmcXF0V2dDSFRoR1BTOE1HU2E4YTc0dkx2b0tPZythT3ZYaFlyS3FER01DdUoxZ1wvTUVhNkVzbkh5Q01kaitNVVYifQ%3D%3D
Vericred gets $5.5 million in new capital to expand its centralized health insurance data platform.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/vericred-closes-55-million-series-a-round-led-by-fca-venture-partners-300461105.html
Specialist physician EHR vendor Modernizing Medicine gets an up-to-date financing round of $230 million. Wow is all you can say.
http://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/specialty-ehr-vendor-modernizing-medicine-raises-231m-warburg-pincus
Capsule garners $20 million in new capital. The company gets prescriptions from doctors via a mobile app and delivers prescriptions to the patient's home.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/capsule-corrals-20-million-for-new-pharmacy-model-1494415800
Upfront Healthcare Services, which offers software to maximize patient visits, lands $6 million in financing.
https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/upfront-healthcare-services-lands-6-mln-series-a/
The TealTech Mobile Medical Office has received its first investment, to support a platform for fast point of care diagnostics.
http://mhealthwatch.com/tealtech-capital-invests-in-mobile-medical-office-technology-platform-28340/
$130 million is a lot of money; it is a lot of capital. So why investors are giving it to Clover Health in a new financing round perplexes me, since it plows well-worn and not very fertile ground of doing data analytics and care coordination for Medicare Advantage patients.
http://medcitynews.com/2017/05/clover-health-raises-130m-in-expansion/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=51893516&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--PV5M37dk9lewMsGKcC-WuQu6TFnIT2BnOzj3oKrUx4kGxHF4lGEq-xAbGckIHvIu_LXezwfZeXqtRxoKVM40uJmDsLlVIF_xvQPaJqsngXD0cdVg&_hsmi=51893516
HealthLoop ropes investors into a fresh $8.4 million funding to help coordinate post-hospital care.
http://medcitynews.com/2017/05/healthloop-raises-8-4m-series-b-round-build-commercial-teams/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=51975930&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-99XJfaCTsy4wg1Aml_LF-9uGwT5aKjQdCudUNgWU75Kg6yyiqBcu3RCNK82HGgfAlhzoI_PRRE08FDhZwFxrLKbmbWM1owYuGKDT2dTXYaTQe93RY&_hsmi=51975930
Coordination of care communications platform Updox received $12.7 million in a new capital round.
https://www.updox.com/company/news-press-releases/updox-equity-announcement
Lemonaid gathers $11 million in new funding to support its online health care platform.
https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/lemonaid-health-attracts-11-mln-series-a/
Hospital supply and software vendor GHX apparently has been majority-acquired by a PE firm.
http://www.ghx.com/newsroomevents/news-releases/2017/ghx-receives-investment-from-temasek/
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.