Clarify Health Solutions gathers $6 million in financing to provide analytics for hospitals, as far as I can tell. Despite the company's name, it is not clear to me what they actually will do or why it is any different that 1000 other analytics platforms.
In a somewhat complex maneuver, publicly health population health company ApolloMed and Network Medical Management, an IPA management company, are merging. The combined company will have revenues over $300 million and NMM shareholders will end up with over 80% of the merged entity.
HHS is going to hit about 171,000 clinicians with a 3% reduction in their Medicare reimbursement for failure to meet meaningful use standards. That is a pretty good whack but many of these providers probably serve few beneficiaries.
GreatCall, which monitors health information in a patient's home, is buying HealthSense, which wires up elderly patient's homes and does monitoring in assisted living and nursing home facilities.
$18 million in new funding is giving life to Vida Health, which has the revolutionary, disruptive idea of providing a mobile platform for patients to manage health and chronic conditions.
Emanate Wireless is picking up some good vibrations from investors, adding $1.5 in funding to support its software that monitors the status and utilization of health care assets.
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