Fruit Street Health raises a zany $5.4 million from physicians in a crowdfunding for something or other, maybe having to do with wearables, data, population health, a real fruit salad.
http://medcitynews.com/2016/06/telehealth-nutrition-consults/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=4b2f86a692-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-4b2f86a692-408793005&rf=1RubiconMD has raised $4 million to support its business of reducing unnecessary use of specialist doctors.
http://medcitynews.com/2016/06/rubiconmd-raises-4m-series-a-round/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=4b2f86a692-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-4b2f86a692-408793005&rf=1Covtiviti, which audits health care payments on behalf of CMS and commercial insurers, did an IPO raising over $230 million, but its stock closing off the offering price.
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160526/NEWS/160529925?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20160526-NEWS-160529925&utm_campaign=amLumiata lights it up with $10 million in new capital for, wait for it, a predictive analytics tool for population health management. Ooohhh, cool.
http://medcitynews.com/2016/05/lumiata-raises-10m-ramp-product-development-predictive-analytics-risk-assessment/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=cd64fe67dd-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-cd64fe67dd-408793005&rf=1Hopefully large software vendor SAP isn't being played for a sap by making an $18 million investment in health care price transparency firm Castlight, whose shares are down mightily following its IPO and which apparently still needs capital after blowing through tens of millions of dollars.
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160520/NEWS/160519874?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20160520-NEWS-160519874&utm_campaign=hitsShowing its in the clover, new-fangled health plan Clover Health finds $160 million in fresh capital to support expansion, and its likely underpricing of the health care costs it is assuming, see Oscar Health, e.g.
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