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Apr 17 2017

Okay, its getting weird out there, or maybe wired.  Palarum secures $3.4 million to develop products with a fabric that will monitor and report patients' movements.  Its an IoT play.  ooooohhhhh

https://www.newswire.com/news/new-healthcare-iot-company-focused-on-patient-safety-secures-3-4m-in-19186956
Apr 15 2017

Medicare's policy of not paying for certain hospital-acquired conditions produces the greatest reductions in these events in hospitals that have the greatest proportion of Medicare revenue to total revenue, according to research in Medical Care.

http://journals.lww.com/lww-medicalcare/Abstract/2017/05000/Impact_of_Medicare_s_Nonpayment_Program_on.1.aspx
Apr 14 2017

Health care system interoperability software vendor Sansoro Health raises $5.2 million in new capital.

http://medcitynews.com/2017/04/sansoro-health-series-a-interoperabiliy/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=50674858&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-94XwVyshPd6Qv230avLDT0XNTi1V3KO69LoV4UNZH75cAvQoJtud4ZmT-ThdHCDv7US2ua-Av4FRVS_kbpQ0B4keDQlMn0DWrqJeegQlf81Kf4gG4&_hsmi=50674858&rf=1
Apr 14 2017

Hospital readmissions are lower when informal caregivers are integrated into discharge planning activities, according to a meta-analysis in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.14873/full
Apr 13 2017

Quality Systems, a vendor of EHR and other health care software, through its NextGen subsidiary, is acquiring Entrada Systems for $34 million, kind of astounding since Entrada has revenue of $12 million and a loss of $2 million.  Entrada has a mobile app that allows patients to access EHR and other provider systems.

https://bridge.nextgen.com/media/4493/PRESS_RELEASE-NextGen_Healthcare_Announces_Plans_to_Acquire_Entrada.pdf
Apr 13 2017

Blink Health quickly garners $90 million in fresh funding to support its software that allows patients to order generic medications online and pick them up locally.  Investors hope their capital doesn't disappear in a Blink.

http://medcitynews.com/2017/04/blink-health-raises-90m-boost-prescription-drug-price-transparency/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=50589075&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--M4-TnzEznXp-PUeidV_i2rYy5-typ50oZ9BGgr_FYvxUGverrM1JykO8fcAwXF00TZLRJSk8Je1QZAZVZdsjLw6LCx7ARjgsHOeHjGka3aKzwC5o&_hsmi=50589075&rf=1
Apr 13 2017

ClearDATA hasRAISED $12MILLION inNEW financingFOR its healthCARE cloudAND securitySERVICES.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/04/cleardata-raises-12-mln/
Apr 07 2017

Drchrono receives $12 million in funding for its EHR, practice management and revenue cycle management software.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/04/drchrono-scores-12-mln-series-a/
Apr 07 2017

Vera Whole Health, which operates primary care clinics at websites, has raised $24 million in a Series D round.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/04/worksite-primary-care-provider-vera-whole-health-pulls-in-24-mln/
Apr 06 2017

UnitedHealth has sold its Connextion unit to customer service communications vendor TeleTech for $80 million, which seems like it must be a less than UnitedHealth paid for the unit, so either they are keeping some of the business or other payers weren't that interested in buying or continuing to use Connextion's services when it was owned by UnitedHealth.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/teletech-acquires-leading-health-services-company-connextions-inc-300434523.html