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Apr 30 2015

Private equity firm Francisco Partners is acquiring HealthcareSource, a provider of talent management services for health care companies.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/04/francisco-partners-to-acquire-healthcaresource/
Apr 29 2015

In a tie-up of two India-based mobile health and fitness app companies, Practo iso acquiringo FitHo foro ano undisclosedo sumo.

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-04-25/news/61518547_1_abhinav-lal-shashank-nd-practo
Apr 29 2015

HEALTHCAREfirst, has capitalized on its position by acquiring a lower-case company, Deyta. HEALTHCAREfirst provides software for home health agencies and hospices and Deyta offers patient satisfaction and quality measurement services for the same market.

http://www.deyta.com/news/healthcarefirst-announces-acquisition-of-deyta
Apr 29 2015

Validic (not to be confused with Vladic, the pickle company, although investors may find themselves in a pickle) has garnered an additional $12.5 million in capital to validate its "internet of things" approach to health care.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/04/internet-things-enabler-validic-raises-12-5m-add-staff-support-product-development/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=4420891e28-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-4420891e28-67648197
Apr 29 2015

Telemedicine pioneer TelaDoc has apparently rung up an IPO filing, on as yet undisclosed terms.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/04/teladoc-takes-first-step-toward-ipo/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=4420891e28-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-4420891e28-67648197
Apr 29 2015

An Asian firm called DocDoc has raised $8.6 million to help expatriates find health care by using a mobile app.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/04/physician-scheduling-service-targets-expats-se-asia/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=4420891e28-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-4420891e28-67648197
Apr 28 2015

1DocWay has received an investment from Rock Health to advance its business of helping hospitals do telepsychiatry visits.

https://rockhealth.com/2015/04/expanding-footprint-three-new-east-coast-investments-new-office/
Apr 28 2015

Investors voted for Voalte by giving it another $6 million in capital to support its clinical communication systems.

http://www.voalte.com/voalte-receives-6-million-strategic-investments/
Apr 28 2015

Mpirica gets a logical $1.6 million to rate hospitals on their surgery capabilities and provide the data to self-insured employers.

http://www.geekwire.com/2015/mpirica-health-lands-1-6m-to-rate-hospitals-by-type-of-surgery/
Apr 28 2015

Scanadu has achieved a paradisial $35 million for its Scout mobile health monitoring platform.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/04/scanadu-attracts-investment-china-35m-series-b/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=8e3bb31242-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-8e3bb31242-67648197
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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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