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Jun 26 2017

Large health IT vendor Cognizant is acquiring TMG Health, a subsidiary of HCSC, which provides administrative services for Medicare and Medicaid health plans.

http://investors.cognizant.com/2017-06-13-Cognizant-and-Health-Care-Service-Corporation-HCSC-Expand-Strategic-Relationship-Cognizant-to-Purchase-HCSC-Subsidiary-TMG-Health-and-Enter-into-Multi-Year-Services-Agreement
Jun 26 2017

Genome Medical, which plans to offer inexpensive genetic counseling sessions, has raised $12 million in capital.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/23/genome-medical-training-experts-to-interpret-genome-sequencing.html
Jun 23 2017

Nuvolo, which tracks performance of equipment in hospitals, has raised a new $10 million in funding.

http://medcitynews.com/2017/06/heres-not-sexy-cloud-startup-just-raised-10m-ge-nea/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8YeVIjsY3xBoAwN8rqKh8zh0sPmuGeWZilfh-R31V50u9swOcWkrMWHuzsjK-px3B830zaM5nk8coruWtxZpnBl30DWSQEE-aWlXoZ8CAgZHk5cB0&_hsmi=53492619&rf=1
Jun 22 2017

Another public CRO bites the dust, as Parexel agrees to be acquired by a PE firm for around $5 billion.

http://www.fiercebiotech.com/cro/parexel-to-go-private-5b-pamplona-capital-buyout-deal?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTURRek56SmpOMk0zTm1aaSIsInQiOiJCWjJrUXlQSUJLTEtwSzI4QVNjOEI2aTQrNFBwdEVmNU9WQ0lQdTRYd0lDSUcyRkpSNzg5NDA1eVZ3TXZnaDhqNnFrXC9LeVZQWXEwWlFuTHhMXC9BWGhsQ2Q5RE9uOWs5YjNBSVwvcHEwdEU3d3dFRVYrb1BBRzU3ZWR6bkMrWDJUMiJ9&mrkid=635530&utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
Jun 22 2017

Post-acute care provider TwelveStone Health Partners gets a weight off its chest, finding $3.35 million in new funding.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/06/twelvestone-health-partners-pulls-in-3-35-mln/
Jun 22 2017

CirrusMd has its head in the clouds after closing on $7 million in new capital for its text-based telemedicine service.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170620005678/en/CirrusMD-Closes-7-Million-Series-Funding
Jun 20 2017

Struggling telemedicine firm Teladoc is spending $440 million to acquire BestDoctors, which rates and connects patients to physician resources.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2017/06/19/teladoc-to-spend-440m-on-telehealth-consultation-firm-best-doctors/#1fb9a5687b7d
Jun 19 2017

If you are a startup and you want to succeed, pick a market niche that no one else is in, say a wearable device that provides health information monitoring.  No one else is doing that, are they??  Spry Health lands a healthy $5.5 million for its version of such a wearable.

http://hitconsultant.net/2017/06/15/spry-health-series-a-round/
Jun 15 2017

Please, make it stop.  Xealht raises $8.5 million in funding to help doctors send electronic copies of health education material to patients and track their use of the materials.

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/seattle-health-care-tech-startup-xealth-raises-85-million/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=53112009&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--xb0bQm1KAIEhekJ94Uba10Sb22eKDsRpgwypul1X_3DlXeDDX66GY1y-LhOIJUoeobEfBuikXRkU0ccjilAXTXWv6lV80g7qQyg9filup0607sPI&_hsmi=53112009
Jun 15 2017

You haven't fingered the pulse of the market if you aren't calling yourself a digital health company, like Peerfit, which raised $2.3 million to help arrange "boutique" fitness classes for health plan members and others.  Someone will pay for this?

https://pulse.peerfit.com/digital-health-startup-peerfit-closes-2-3m-investment-round/
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