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Aug 24 2017

Machine learning for health care vendor GNS Healthcare gets a fresh $6 million in capital from Amgen Ventures, as it focuses on drug development uses.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/amgen-ventures-invests-in-gns-healthcare-to-advance-applications-of-its-refs-causal-machine-learning-and-simulation-ai-platforms-300508205.html
Aug 24 2017

AbleTo is, garnering $36.6 million in a new round of funding, as it expands its software-driven behavioral health services.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ableto-raises-366-million-in-series-d-funding-led-by-bain-capital-ventures-300508507.html
Aug 24 2017

Lumity shines, raising $19 million to support its service to simplify health plan choices and enrollment for employees.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/23/lumity-raises-19m-to-simplify-employee-health-care-choices/
Aug 23 2017

Stride Health, which helps workers who don't have employment-based health insurance locate and select a health plan, has received $23.5 million in new capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/08/f-prime-capital-leads-series-b-round-for-stride-health/
Aug 23 2017

Large Catholic-affiliated hospital network Ascension is merging with Presence Health, in another example of hospital consolidation which will do nothing to reduce health spending.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20170822/NEWS/170829976?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20170822-NEWS-170829976&utm_campaign=am
Aug 23 2017

Health care provider network analytics vendor Quest Analytics is being acquired by a PE firm for an undisclosed sum.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/08/3468552/
Aug 17 2017

Illinois-based DuPage Medical Group is being sold from one PE firm to another for $1.45 billion.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/08/summit-exits-dupage-medical-in-1-45-bln/
Aug 17 2017

eSolutions, which optimizes customers revenue cycle management processes, is buying RemitDATA, which offers data and analytics capabilities.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/08/pe-backed-esolutions-buys-remitdata/
Aug 16 2017

Happify Health is also happy to announce new funding, $9 million, to support its personal behavior change software and services platform.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/08/ttcp-leads-9-mln-round-for-happify-health/
Aug 16 2017

HealthJoy, which offers a health care decision-making platform, is ecstatic to happily announce that it is very pleased to add $3 million in joyful capital.

https://healthjoy.com/announcing-healthjoys-3-million-series-funding-round/
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