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Feb 17 2016

Protenus (no, it doesn't support professional tennis) has raised $4 million in new financing for privacy tools for EMRs.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-protenus-seriesa-20160216-story.html?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=26333286&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9kQxFfPG4KmYN_0fBM28OVhswteGOczTPzeR2UcGY_X3cKZdo5m6ttyV7tq-SLD_8dJzO9cENJIhP-BYZAZBMFnOeF3LwqTOAGr3Z2fX8cVnmr0zM&_hsmi=26333286
Feb 11 2016

PE firm Water Street is selling Health Plan Services to Indian oursourcing firm Wipro for $460 million.  Health Plan Services provides administrative services for insurers and health plans.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/02/water-street-healthcare-to-sell-healthplan-services-for-460-mln/
Feb 10 2016

SwervePay gets $10 million in fresh capital for its mobile patient payment system.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/02/swervepay-fetches-10-mln-series-b/
Feb 10 2016

Telemedicine provider First Stop Health has raised $2.1 million in financing.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/02/first-stop-health-raises-2-1-mln-in-seed-funding/
Feb 08 2016

Home health care franchisor H. H. Franchising Systems (wonder what the H. H. stands for?) has been acquired by PE firm Linsalata Capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/02/linsalata-capital-acquires-h-h-franchising-systems/
Feb 08 2016

A brief note from Accenture highlights investment in convenient on-demand forms of health care, like video and internet consultations.

https://www.accenture.com/t20151120T024431__w__/us-en/_acnmedia/Accenture/Conversion-Assets/DotCom/Documents/Global/PDF/Dualpub_25/Accenture-Healthcare-for-Here-or-to-Go-v2.pdf#zoom=50
Feb 08 2016

Sometimes if you aren't doing too well on your own, you can combine with someone else who isn't doing too well.  I have no idea what is behind this combination but four health care management and transaction service companies are merging, Premier Healthcare Exchange, Stratose, GlobalCare and Pay-Plus Solutions, all supposedly industry leaders, so God knows how dominant that new entity will be.

http://www.phx-online.com/2016/01/28/industry-leaders-combine-to-form-unparalleled-company-in-healthcare-value-management/
Feb 06 2016

Concierge health care provider One Medical has added one more medical capability, acquiring Rise, a vendor of nutritional counseling services, supposedly for $20 million.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/02/one-medical-acquires-nutrion-app-developer-rise/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=9fb0a92a06-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-9fb0a92a06-408793005&rf=1
Feb 03 2016

According to DRX, a unit of Connecture that helps patients pick Medicare plans, prices on a number of drugs have more than doubled since 2014, and some have quadrupled.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-02/shkreli-not-alone-in-drug-price-spikes-as-skin-gel-soars-1-860
Feb 03 2016

Huron Consulting is buying MyRounding, which has software supporting physician rounding activities, to round out its portfolio of health IT services.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/02/huron-consulting-acquires-digital-health-startup-myrounding/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=2b2f2accd9-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-2b2f2accd9-408793005&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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