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Jan 13 2016

Great Hill gives a mountain of money to RxBenefits in a recap for the vendor of pharmacy benefit management services to small and mid-sized companies.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/01/657617/
Jan 13 2016

EmployerDirect Healthcare has been recapped in a Series C round for an undisclosed amount.  The company has a centers of excellence surgery network it sells to self-funded plans.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/01/dundon-capital-buys-majority-of-emply/
Jan 13 2016

$12.25 million in additional investment should cure AiCure, which aims to use facial recognition and artificial intelligence to help verify medication adherence.  Really?

http://medcitynews.com/2016/01/aicure-fundraise/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=370500d672-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-370500d672-408793005&rf=1
Jan 12 2016

Diagnostics company PWN Health has tied the knot with Bind Health, a genetic testing firm.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/01/pe-backed-pwnhealth-acquires-bind-health/
Jan 12 2016

Syapse has raised precisely $25 million in new capital for its software to integrate genetic information into physician decision-making.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/01/syapse/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=370500d672-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-370500d672-408793005&rf=1
Jan 12 2016

Consumer health information business Healthline has a line on $91 million in fresh investment, while spinning off subsidiary TalixMed, a health IT business, which took $14 million in additional capital with it.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/01/healthline-talix/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=370500d672-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-370500d672-408793005
Jan 12 2016

Provider credentialing and network participation firm Vericred has truthfully raised $3.1 million.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/01/health-insurance-data-vericred-seed-round/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=370500d672-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-370500d672-408793005
Jan 11 2016

Ad and marketing firm Weber Shandwick is buying ReviveHealth to perk up its health care related capabilities.

http://www.fiercepharmamarketing.com/story/weber-shandwick-snaps-revivehealth-boost-healthcare-specialties/2016-01-08?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRons6XAe%252B%252FhmjTEU5z17e8oXKS2lMI%252F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4CTMRgMK%252BTFAwTG5toziV8R7LMKM1ty9MQWxTk
Jan 11 2016

HealthMarkets has acquired health insurance broker Excelsior Benefits to help expand its insurance sales capability.

http://www.healthmarketsinc.com/2016/healthmarkets-acquires-excelsior-benefits/
Jan 11 2016

Rizk Ventures is buying WorkforceRx, which helps health systems identify and execute cost-saving initiatives and which will be renamed RV Healthcare Analytics.  Maybe it can help Rizk learn how to spell.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/01/rizk-ventures-buys-wrx-rebrands-rvha/
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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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