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Nov 15 2014

Truven Health Analytics, the former Thompson unit, has acquired Heartbeat Experts, a global provider of data analytics services, primarily to life sciences companies.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20141114/NEWS/311149943&utm_source=link-20141114-NEWS-311149943&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hits&utm_name=top
Nov 14 2014

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that using a formal care handoff process to share information between a patient's clinicians reduced medical errors in hospitals.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1405556
Nov 13 2014

CareSync has gotten investors to sink $4.25 million into its "consumer-centric" care coordination (fill in buzz word here) business.

http://www.tullisfunds.com/news/caresync-closes-4-25-million-series-a-financing-to-accelerate-expansion-and-innovation
Nov 13 2014

PRA Health Sciences, another contract research organization, has also filed for a public offering, looking to raise as much as $375 million.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/09/09/4135916_raleigh-based-pra-files-plans.html?rh=1
Nov 13 2014

Seniorlink, which has staffing and technology to care for people in their homes, has acquired Vayu Technologies, a tele-care platform.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/10/prweb12259913.htm
Nov 12 2014

Clearview Logix, a health analytics application developer, has acquired Evenspring's health care division.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20141015005326/en#.VFzjEb64lz8
Nov 12 2014

$7.5 million has been added to HealthCare.com's coffers to support its health insurance search and comparison software.

https://www.pehub.com/2014/11/healthcare-com-racks-up-7-5-mln-series-a/
Nov 12 2014

Specialty EMR vendor Modernizing Medicine attains a new $15 million investment, partly to be used for developing telemedicine capabilities.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/11/cloud-based-specialty-emr-developer-modernizing-medicine-raises-15m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=18cfdbe05c-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-18cfdbe05c-67648197
Nov 11 2014

Sentrian has elicited a $12 investment in software designed to improve remote health monitoring by screening out false positives.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/11/in-move-to-reduce-false-positives-in-remote-patient-monitoring-health-it-company-raises-12m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=61427627d9-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-61427627d9-67648197
Nov 11 2014

Almond Systems received a nutty $9 million in capital for its digital tools to help people eat healthier.

http://mobihealthnews.com/37386/almond-systems-raises-9m-to-develop-digital-tools-that-help-people-eat-healthier/