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Sep 18 2014

Chartspan gathered $1 million in new financing for its mobile patient medical record.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/09/chartspan-raises-1m-to-expand-patient-medical-records-app/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=1b752e55ba-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-1b752e55ba-67677117
Sep 18 2014

Optimum Medical Management has been acquired by PracticeMax.  Optimum is a vendor of billing and practice management services in Nebraska and PracticeMax provides similar services nationally.

http://www.sandlotsolutions.com/news-releases/2014/09/08/sandlot-solutions-raises-233-million-funding-led-lemhi-ventures
Sep 18 2014

Sandlot Solutions, which provides software to facilitate health information exchange, population health and EHR data interoperability, has raised $23.3 million.

http://www.sandlotsolutions.com/news-releases/2014/09/08/sandlot-solutions-raises-233-million-funding-led-lemhi-ventures
Sep 17 2014

RightCare, whose software helps identify patient needs at time of hospital admission and development of discharge plans, has gotten $4 million more in capital.

http://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/business/horsham-s-rightcare-gets-additional-capital-investment/article_3130f984-b0c8-52d9-ae50-05b2b4738690.html
Sep 17 2014

Privia Health has secured an unbelievable $400 million in new financing for its business of providing practice and population health management tools to providers.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140916/NEWS/309169943?AllowView=VDl3UXk1T3dDL0tCbkJiYkY0M3hlMHFvaVVVZER1VT0=&utm_source=link-20140916-NEWS-309169943&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hits&utm_name=top#
Sep 17 2014

Wound management firm RestorixHealth has acquired another wound management company, Paradigm Medical Management.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/09/pe-backed-restorixhealth-buys-paradigm/
Sep 16 2014

An Avalere study finds that very low numbers of Medicare beneficiaries who are supposed to be getting MTM services are actually receiving them.

http://avalere.com/expertise/managed-care/insights/few-medicare-beneficiaries-receive-comprehensive-medication-management-serv
Sep 16 2014

According to a study from UnitedHealth Group, members who used its price transparency and provider rating tools were more likely to select high-quality, low-cost providers.

http://www.uhc.com/live/uhc_com/Assets/Documents/myHCEwhitepaper.pdf
Sep 16 2014

A company promising to make health care billing easier for consumers to deal with, iVinci Health, has raised $5 million.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/09/startup-ivinci-raises-5m-make-healthcare-billing-consumer-friendly/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=7cb9a19660-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-7cb9a19660-67648197
Sep 15 2014

Cognizant, the large software services firm, is buying Trizetto, which specializes in developing and maintaining software for health care companies, for $2.7 billion.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101923737
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