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Aug 13 2015

Florida True Health, a joint venture between the Florida Blue Cross plan and  AmeriHealth Caritas, has agreed to acquired Prestige Health Choice, a Medicaid plan.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150810005742/en/Florida-Blue-AmeriHealth-Caritas-Reaffirm-Commitment-Florida’s#.Vcz-ZEs4Ebp
Aug 12 2015

Care at Hand has some cash on hand, having raised $560,000 in funding for its home care early warning mobile app.

http://snip.ly/BZxL?utm_source=StartUp+Health+Insider&utm_campaign=a256d6ab44-StartUp_Health_Weekly_News_08-12-2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_250bac26a5-a256d6ab44-312282157#http://mobihealthnews.com/45839/care-at-hand-raises-560000-for-health-analytics-offering/
Aug 12 2015

NTT DATA is acquiring InteHealth and its software that supports health care information sharing.

http://americas.nttdata.com/News/News/Press%20Releases/Press-Releases/2015-Press-Releases/NTT-DATA-Strengthens-Healthcare-Offering-Across-Continuum-of-Care.aspx
Aug 12 2015

Doctor appointment software vendor HotDoc gathers in some hot funding, $2.2 million.

http://www.afr.com/technology/medical-technology-startup-hotdoc-gets-22-million-airtree-ventures-backing-20150805-gismzk
Aug 11 2015

Marlin Equity Partners is acquiring AdvancedMD, which offers comprehensive EMR and practice management software for physician practices.

http://www.advancedmd.com/company/press/advancedmd-to-be-acquired-by-marlin-equity-partners
Aug 11 2015

Infobionics cashes in with $8 million in fresh capital, for its patient monitoring solution.

http://infobionic.com/infobionic-announces-8-million-series-b-1-financing/
Aug 11 2015

A company dedicated to helping veterans get better health care, Unite US, has received $4.3 million in funding.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/veteran-care-platform-unite-us-receives-43mm-to-fuel-software-growth-300124212.html
Aug 11 2015

Dapasoft, a Canadian vendor of health IT system integration and consulting services, has garnered $4 million in additional capital.

http://dapasoft.com/dapasoft-secures-investment-to-fuel-growth/
Aug 11 2015

Zest Health has raised $6 million from exuberant investors for its mobile app to help consumers make better purchasing decisions.

http://venturebeat.com/2015/08/04/zest-health-completes-6-million-series-a-financing/
Aug 10 2015

A KFF analysis finds that over half the country's hospitals will be penalized under CMS's patently flawed hospital readmissions reduction policy, which the agency has stubbornly refused to fix or enough acknowledge is very, very poorly designed.  Most of the hospitals that won't be penalized are exempt from being evaluated.

http://khn.org/news/half-of-nations-hospitals-fail-again-to-escape-medicares-readmission-penalties/
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