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Mar 10 2015

PE firm Marlin Equity has purchased HomecareCRM, a vendor of software solutions for the long-term and post-acute care markets, and intends to merge it with SigmaCare, which has a similar set of offerings.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/03/marlin-equity-buys-homecarecrm/
Mar 07 2015

SocialWellth has raised $7.5 million to expand its mobile health app stores, and has agreed to trade its extra "l" for an "a".  Here's to your hellth.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/03/social-wellth-raises-7-5-million/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=8a86afc1c5-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-8a86afc1c5-67677117
Mar 06 2015

Healogics, which operates wound care centers, has acquired Accelecare, which is in the same business.

http://www.streetinsider.com/Press+Releases/Healogics,+Inc.+Completes+Acquisition+of+Accelecare+Wound+Centers,+Inc./10330782.html
Mar 06 2015

Oak Street Health, which operates primary care clinics for Medicare beneficiaries, has raised an undisclosed amount of additional capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/03/harbour-point-capital-and-qsp-invests-in-oak-street-health/
Mar 05 2015

Ahem, fun coming here.  A company called Daqri, which apparently had a few of those to drink, and whose primary business is making an "augmented reality helmet", has acquired another company called Melon, which makes a "smart headband" that takes various biometric measures.  That's using the ole Melon, or not.  Better wear that helmet, wouldn't want to damage the melons coming up with these ideas.

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-daqri-melon-20150219-story.html
Mar 05 2015

CompuGroup Medical, a Germany-based global provider software company, has acquired Medical EDI to bolster its offerings in South Africa.

http://www.cgm.com/corp/presse/presseinformationen/Presse.en.jsp
Mar 05 2015

Navigant, the health care revenue cycle management company, has acquired RevenueMed, which provides coding and similar services.

http://www.navigant.com/insights/library/industry-news/navigant-acquires-revenuemed.aspx/
Mar 05 2015

Sharecare, a mobile wellness and engagement platform, has cared to share that it has acquired Feingold Technologies, which voice and text messages to understand behavior.

http://mobihealthnews.com/40867/sharecare-acquires-voice-text-analysis-company-feingold-technologies/
Mar 04 2015

Truven Health Analytics is apparently filing for an IPO that could value the health data and analytics company at as much as $3 billion.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/03/truven-health-analytics-prepares-for-ipo-say-sources-reuters/
Mar 03 2015

Cardinal Health is buying Johnson & Johnson's trouble interventional cardiology business, Cordis, for almost $2 billion.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150302/NEWS/150309997
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