Voluntis has raised $29 million for its "therapeutic companion software" (a digital sex doll?). I know I am being flip today, but if I can't read a press release and understand what the company really does, or if it is nothing but the latest buzz words, the communication wasn't too good.
The sovereign Kuwati Investment Authority has invested $100 million in NantHealth, a "cloud-based, transformational healthcare IT company". Wait, where's the mobile app? I am sure they can transform those dollars into some dreamy clouds.
Accolade, a provider of software to help consumers navigate the health system (aaaahhhhhh!) has acquired konciergeMD, which does something similar. (What the company didn't have enough "capital"? Apparently not, at least on the front end.)
RedBrick Health has raised $7.5 million, part of an intended larger financing, but oddly one of the purposes of the investment is said to be to pay executives and other employees. Weird.
Huron Consulting, which has a very large health care IT consulting segment, has acquired Vonlay consulting, which assists providers in implementing EHRs.
Cigna has said that its first wave of enrollees from the public insurance exchanges have higher health care costs than anticipated. Other insurers have indicated they think they anticipated costs and priced right, but we will see.
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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.