Broad-based health management company Medecision decides to buy GSI Health, which offers software to help providers with value-based payment arrangements, particularly for Medicaid business.
Amazon adds to its health capabilities by purchasing Health Navigator, which offers online symptom checking and triage tools designed to help steer patients to appropriate treatment paths.
Australia-based firm MedAdvisor, which provides an app to help patients manage the medications, raises $11.5 million in new financing, led by HMS Holdings.
Avia flys off with $22 in new funding for its digital health insights business, and I have no idea what value they actually bring to their health system customers and investors but the press release is full of disruption, etc. etc.
Octave Health strikes a positive note, collecting $11 million in new capital to support its behavioral health business which matches patients with in-person or telehealth care.
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