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Mar 28 2016

PE firm Ancor Capital has acquired DuvaSawko, which provides billing, coding and related services to emergency medicine practices.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/03/3322718/
Mar 25 2016

EHR vendor Allscripts is buying a stake in Netsmart Technologies, a vendor of behavioral health software.  In a complex transaction, Allscripts home health software will be combined with Netsmart to create a company also partly owned by a PE firm.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160323/NEWS/160329959/allscripts-is-buying-stake-in-netsmart-technologies
Mar 24 2016

Bivarus, which uses patient-generated data to help providers identify improvement areas, has garnered $2 million in new capital.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/03/bivarus-patient-centered-analytics/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=0d4d864c31-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-0d4d864c31-408793005
Mar 23 2016

Hospital chain Regional Care will merge with Capella Healthcare to form a company with 18 hospitals.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/03/regionalcare-hospital-to-merge-with/
Mar 22 2016

Medical Departures gets $2.5 million in investment to help patients arrange medical tourism appointments.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/03/medical-departures-raises-2-5-mln-in-series-a-funding/
Mar 22 2016

Maxwell is getting smart; Maxwell Health that is, as the vendor of software relating to employer health plans raises $22 million in new capital.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/03/maxwell-health-series-c/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=96663e17c0-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-96663e17c0-408793005
Mar 18 2016

Piecing together fragments of information, we have learned that Pieces Technology has pieced together $21.6 million in fresh investment in piecemeal fashion to further its clinical decision support software business.  Now don't go to pieces.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/03/clinical-decision-support-startup/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=80ae43ce5c-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-80ae43ce5c-408793005&rf=1
Mar 16 2016

Health insurance exchange vendor Connecture has connected with $52 million in new capital.

https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2016/03/14/819624/0/en/Connecture-Inc-Announces-52-Million-Investment-Led-By-Francisco-Partners.html
Mar 16 2016

Narrative DX says that it has raised $1.1 million in capital and stated that it will use it for its tool to add context to patient satisfaction surveys, which sounds like quite a story.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/03/patient-experience-analytics/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=f4f6129d0b-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-f4f6129d0b-408793005
Mar 15 2016

According to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine, the number of clinical messages generated by electronic medical records is beginning to overwhelm physicians.  Reading and responding takes substantial time and is leading to information overload.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/03/physicians-clinical-messaging/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=f1086a8cce-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-f1086a8cce-408793005&rf=1
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Kevin RocheThe Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.

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