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Apr 22 2015

Large health plan company Humana has purchased Your Home Advantage, a provider of home visits for patient assessment and care.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150421/NEWS/150429972/humana-invests-further-in-home-health-visits?utm_campaign=KHN:%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=17228342&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8tkx9Ne3_gIBWP66k0JSsbFwtJF9lxgK0CfD1HVnAygCF7herhwQZ8cu1tQSrd1pLgssgVoPH0iOtw7Uipt9nbEakJrw&_hsmi=17228342
Apr 21 2015

Crosschx, has raisd $15 million to play Whl of Fortun and buy an e.  Sriously, thy ar in th businss of vrifying patint idntity and nsuring the right data is in the patint's fil.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/13/crosschx-series-b/
Apr 21 2015

Lets be blunt, we've got the dope and we weed out the useless data.  Eaze has easily raised a stone $10 million for its business of delivering medical marijuana to patients.  Oh man, that is so cool and far out, dude, don't even have to get off my floor to get my next bag, now if I can only find my cell phone.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/13/eaze-10m/#.oqnxb8:yADy
Apr 21 2015

Forcare, a Dutch software company which provides health information exchange software, has raised 5 million Euros.

http://www.forcare.com/news/breaking-news/
Apr 21 2015

According to Kalorama, the EMR market is worth $25 billion in sales now and will reach $35 billion by 2019.

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/emr-market-reaches-25b-4-things-to-know.html
Apr 21 2015

A recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey, among other things, reveals that most consumers are having trouble finding, much less using, provider price and quality.

http://kff.org/health-reform/poll-finding/kaiser-health-tracking-poll-april-2015/
Apr 21 2015

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Oscar, a supposedly new form of health plan, raised $145 million at $1.5 billion to help with expansion into California and Texas.

Apr 19 2015

meQuilibrium has balanced the books by adding $9 million in capital for its programs to help employees handle workplace stress.  I think I am finally getting a handle on this, the odder your name, the more likely you get funding.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/04/boost-sales-stress-resilience-workplace-program-mequilibrium-raises-9m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=fc4b709474-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-fc4b709474-67648197
Apr 17 2015

PatientBond, a patient and member engagement company, has acquired c2b Horizons, which offers psychographic profiling.  imo u r going to c more like this.

http://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/15/04/b5398942/patientbond-acquires-c2b-horizons-forming-first-patient-engagement-tech
Apr 16 2015

Predictive analytics vendor PatientRoute Systems has acquired $7 million in fresh capital to help hospitals use resources more effectively.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/03/serial-entrepreneur-raises-7m-double-size-predictive-analytics-business-improve-surgical-capacity-planning/
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