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Aug 10 2015

Public health system consulting and IT firm Advisory Board is buying Zeumo, which offers a communication system for hospitals and their affiliated physicians and staff.

http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/industries/health-care/2015/07/27/nashville-startup-zeumo-bought-advisory-board-co/30626413/
Aug 10 2015

Soon to be inconsolable investors have piled $12.6 million in fresh funding into Consolo, an HIT vendor for hospice and palliative care.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/consolo-services-group-secures-126-million-from-bluff-point-associates-300115697.html
Aug 10 2015

Bright.md, which creates online connections between providers and patients, gets a smart (or not so smart) $3.5 million in new capital.

http://www.antheliohealth.com/downloads/press-releases/Anthelio-Acquires-Pyramid-Healthcare-Solutions.pdf
Aug 07 2015

HIT firm Anthelio Health is acquiring Pyramid Healthcare Solutions which operates in the revenue cycle management space.  Read the press release for an outstanding example of health care and investment gibberish.

http://www.antheliohealth.com/downloads/press-releases/Anthelio-Acquires-Pyramid-Healthcare-Solutions.pdf
Aug 07 2015

EMR vendor Modernizing Medicine has updated itself, giving it a fresh new look, by acquiring gMed, which offers software solutions for gastroenterology practices.

https://www.modmed.com/modernizing-medicine-announces-agreement-to-acquire-gmed/
Aug 07 2015

Physicians Interactive, a marketing firm for providers, is acquiring Quantia, MD, which sponsors a web and mobile meeting place for physicians.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/physicians-interactive-continues-growth-with-acquisition-of-quantia-inc-300117604.html
Aug 07 2015

Asian practice management and scheduling software vendor Practo gives a procto to investors, extracting $90 million in new financing.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/08/practo-raises-90m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=21c3a74560-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-21c3a74560-67677117
Aug 06 2015

IBM demonstrates further floundering in the health care space by paying $1 billion for imaging system vendor Merge HealthCare.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150806/NEWS/150809922?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20150806-NEWS-150809922&utm_campaign=mh-alert
Aug 06 2015

Health Catalyst, which offers data warehousing and analytic capabilities, is buying HealthCare Data Works, which is in roughly the same business.  This overcrowded, low value, field is ripe for further consolidation.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/08/health-catalyst-buys-health-care-dataworks/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=b80e7cdaff-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-b80e7cdaff-67677117
Aug 05 2015

Premier, the hospital GPO firm, continues its expansion outside its core business by adding continuing medical education firm CECity for $400 million.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article29926483.html?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=21083476&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8SLXgBKcJgSHTT8qWsvqNTBVDE_mfYwPatM_twW4G033zUZRdqRSrjkEkbCX536J5NqPB8z-H3qQjjlsUG_PKHNcpw2662LKpxYevl3oWrm_ahObc&_hsmi=21083476
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